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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 







REV. ISAAC LEESER 

Charter Member. 

Board of Officers, 1848-1849 

Secretary, 1849-1850 Vice-President, 1859-1861 

Board of Officers, 1861-1868, (died.) 

Provost Maimonides College (English Literatiire, Logic and Honiiletics. 



FIFTY YEARS' WORK 



OF THE 



Hebrew Education Society 



OF 



Philadelphia. 



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1 848- 1 898. 



PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 
1899. 



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Copyright, 1899, 

BY THE 

Hebrew Education Society, 



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PRESS OF LEVYTYPE COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. HALF-TONES BY THE STANDARD ENGRAVING CO., PHILA; 



CONTENTS. 

Isaac Leeser Frontispiece 

First Constitution and By-Laws 7 

Act of Incorporation 20 

Names of First Pupils 25 

First Cliarity Dinner 33-37 

Second Charity Dinnei- 40 

Teachers in Hebrew Schools 45 

First Published Annual Report 47 

Maimonides College ^^ 

Revision of By-Laws 77 

Location of Schools ^4 

Young Women's Union <^J 

Touro Hall — Tenth and Carpenter Streets 99 

Baron de Hirsch Trust 107 

University Extension Lectures 11^ 

Free Synagogue Service 119 

B'nai B'rith School 121 

Gratz College 123 

Legacies 127 

Officers of the Society, 1848-1898 130 

Officers of the Young Women's Union, 1880-1^96 .... 132 

Summary 133 

Appendix I. 

Hebrew School No. 1 139 

Hebrew School No. 2 140 

School No. 3 141 

School No. 4 141 

Sewing School 141 

General Night School 144 

List of Teachers in Night School and Trade Schools 145 

Al'PENDIX II. 

List of Various Donations 149 

Fifty-first Annual Report 165-194 



PREFACE. 

Tiie first meeting for the formation of a society wliose 
purpose was the education of Jewish 3^outh in the city of 
Philadelphia was held on March 7, 1847 ; on June 4, 1848, 
a Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, and on July 16th 
the first regular meeting of the Society took place. 

At the annual meeting of the Societ}^, held March 13, 
1898, it was decided to commemorate the close of the first 
half-century of the existence of the Society by the publica- 
tion of a memorial volume. 

A brief hut comprehensive history of the inception and 
growth of the Society is accordingly presented in the follow- 
ing pages, compiled almost exclusively from its official rec- 
ords. 

In this review of a half century of active communal ef- 
fort, the life work of Isaac Leeser stands out as a landmark 
in the history of the Jewish educational movement which is 
so marked a feature of our present time. It was Isaac Leeser 
who brought the Hebrew Education Society into existence, 
and it has been the spirit with which he imbued the organi- 
zation that has enabled it to overcome the obstacles which for a 
decade after his death beset its way. To him, furthermore, 
was due the early effort towards a higlier education which 
took form in the Maimonides College, and, in order to make 
the record of that wortiiy undertaking more accessible to 
students of this subject, its plan, as embodied by its rules 
and regulations, has been printed in full. 

Since 1851, when the first Hebrew School of the Society 
was established on Zane street, the development of its work 
has steadily proceeded, increasing in breadth and scope with 
the growing needs of the Jewish community of Philadelphia. 
The Hebrew school originally instituted has been continued, 
with various changes of location, in the central district of the 



viii HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

city, and two others have been established and maintained at 
outlying locations. To these have been added a number of 
English night schools, and industrial schools. 

The policy pursued by the management during the last 
twenty years was not changed from former methods because 
of a desire to have something new, but for the reason that 
the public had evinced a positive disinclination to continue 
the support of the school as it was then conducted. 

In the pursuance of its general objects, the present policy 
of the Society, as definitely laid down in its official declara- 
tions, may here be quoted as follows : 

" To keep the expenditures within the income." 

" To allow the use of any available portion of the So- 
ciety's buildings for charitable or educational purposes gener- 
ally, free of charge." 

"Teachers to speak English without a foreign accent ; 
preference to be given those studying for a profession or pur- 
suing courses at a universit}^ for a general education." 

" English teachers to be High School graduates." 

The men and women of Philadelphia who have contrib- 
uted their means to the Society, may feel content with the 
thought that it has been applied to the highest of philan- 
thropic work — the instruction and uplifting of the children 
of their people. 

The future holds greater possibilities than the past af- 
forded. The connnunity is awakening, still too slowly, to the 
import of these })Ossibilities, and to the fact that the most far- 
reaching philanthropy consists in intellectual and moral edu- 
cation which renders the recipient self-reliant and self- 
sustaining. 

Let us hope that a kind Providence, which has implanted 
in the hearts of the Menibers, Friends and Managers of the 
Hebrew Education Society the desire to maintain its good 
work, and which has watched over and supported them dur- 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. ix 

ing the last half century, will guide and direct them in the 
future, and instil in the hearts of their descendants and succes- 
sors that love for Judaism, its culture and its history, which 
can alone perpetuate our religion and deliver it in its purity 
to our posterity. 



HISTORICAL REVIEW. 



The Hebrew Education Society 



FIFTY YEARS' WORK. 



The foundation of an institution for the education of tlie 
Jewish youth was early agitated in Philadelphia. At the 
beginning of the second quarter of the present century Ger- 
man .Jews were coming to this city in great numbers, and 
they proceeded at once to establish a synagogue and charit- 
able societies. The native-born .Jewish population was rap- 
idly becoming greater and it was recognized generally that 
something had to be done in order to educate fittingly the 
younger generation in the precepts of their fathers, and in a 
manner that would best ecpiip them to cope with the exigen- 
cies of American life. 

There were, it is true, JJebrew teachers in the city, but 
they were not adequate to the needs of the community. The 
compensation paid to these private tutors was very small, and 
it did not encourage many of them to pursue their labors. 
Good text-books were few and these were strongly tinctured 
with Christian theology. The idea of a college, in which 
children born of Jewish parents could be instructed in Eng- 
lish and in the classics, in the liberal arts and in the Hebrew 
language and literature, had long been in a nascent condi- 
tion, and it was soon felt by the members of the Jewish com- 
munity in Philadelphia that such a college was an urgent 
and ever-increasing necessity. 

Already prior to 1840, Mordecai M. Noah, the famous 
traveler, consul-general, pla\'-wright, journalist and politician, 
turned his attention to a plan for the formation of a Hebrew 
College in the United States. Later, he wrote, under date of 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



.SOLOMON GANS 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 1855—1856 

Trustee Maimonicles College 



August 18, 184o, an open letter on this subject to the Rev. 

Isaac Leeser, which was publislied in the September number of 
tlie first vohime of The Occident. Tliere 
Major Noah sketched in brief outline 
his plan for the formation of a Hebrew 
seminar}', " where children of the Jew- 
ish faith can obtain a classical educa- 
tion and at tiie same time be properly 
instructed in the Hebrew language, 
I '^% ^^^ where they can live in conformity to 

y^^mmj/JM^^^^^I our laws and acquire a liberal knowl- 
^^F^^^^^^^m edge of the principles of their religion." 

^B ^^^^^^m Isaac Leeser, in a prefatory note 

to INIiijor Noah's letter, warmly com- 
mended the plan and invited every 
one interested in the cause of educa- 
tion to co-operate with him and to 

give " the subject the serious reflection which it deserves." No 

one recognized the need of such an institution more than 

Isaac Leeser. His magazine, T]ic 

Occident, became the organ of the 

new movement, and he advocated it 

whenever a happy occasion offered 

itself. Isaac Leeser contributed 

more than any other man to the 

establishment of the Hebrew Edu- 
cation Society of Philadelphia. 

A year after the appearance in 

print of Noah's letter, the Rev. I. 

Felsenheld communicated to The 

Occident, (Vol. IL, p. 249) a plan 

which, in the opinion of its author, 

Avouid speedily effect a solution of 

the problem. He proposed to teach 

in the school Hebrew grammar. 

Catechism, Latin, Greek, English grammar, mathematics, 

geography, history, German and French. He further pro- 




MOSES NATHANS 
Charter Member 
Board of Officers, 18J8— 1852 
1800—1801 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



3 




SOLOMON ISAACS 
Cliarter Member 



posed that be himself should conduct it and give instruction 
in most of the branches in his curriculum. As soon as twenty 

pupils would be procured he would 
open the school at the "earliest possi- 
ble day." This plan never matured, 
and the Rev. Isaac Leeser continued to 
moot the subject through the columns 
of Tlie Occident, although little success 
had as yet attended his efibrts. 

Towards the close of J 846 interest 
in the project revived and steps were 
taken to secure enough money to carry 
the plan to a successful issue. On 
January 27, 1847, a ball was given in 
the old Chinese Museum, under the 
management of Michael H. De Young, 
Solomon Gans, Moses Nathans, Isaac Nathans, Solomon 
Isaacs, R. Benjamin, H. Pincus, Simon M. Klasser, Lazarus 
Schloss, Michael Moyer, David Van Biel and Herman Weiler. 
It was known as the Hebrew School Fund Ball, and it was 
given for the especial purpose of rais- 
ing funds for the "establishment of a 
Hebrew School in this city." The re- 
ceipts netted over three hundred dol- 
lars, and this money went into a de- 
pository known as the Hebrew School 
Fund. 

About a month after the ball, a 
public call was issued in the news- 
papers to all Israelites, to meet and re- 
ceive the report of the Trustees of the 
Hebrew School Fund Bali, and to 
adopt such measures "as will further 
the ends of this laudable object." On 
March 7, 1847, in pursuance of this 
call, twenty-five gentlemen met and proceeded to consider 
the disposition of the money. The Rev. Isaac Leeser called 




JIICHAEL MOVER 
Board of Officers, 1861—1865 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY 



the meeting to order. Zadoc A. Davis was elected chairman 
and S. M. Klasser secretary. M. H. De Young, the chairman 
of the Fund, reported that the net proceeds of the hall 
amounted to $312, of which $300 was deposited with the 
Pennsylvania Life Annuity Company, in the names of M. 

H. De Young, 
Moses Nathans 
a n d Jose p h 
Levi, as trustees 
of the Hebrew 
School F u n d 
Ball. On mo- 
tion of Abraham 
Hart it was car- 
r i e d unani- 
mously, that 
the name of 
Simon Elfelt be 
added to the 
Trustees. O n 
motion it was 
resolved that a 
committee of 
seven be ap- 
pointed with 
power to collect 
donations a n d 
yearly subscrip- 
tions to further 
the object of the 
" establishment 
of a Hebrew and 

English school." It was further resolved that as soon as 
$2,000 will have accumulated, a general meeting shall be 
held in which the most advantageous disposal of ithe money 
would be duh' considered. A subscription list was opened at 
the close of the meeting, and a number of the gentlemen. 




ABRAHAM HART 

Charter Member 

Treasurer, 1818—1875 

Board of r)ttieers. 1876—1881 

Trustee Maimonides College 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




HYMAN POLOCK 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 18.59—1802 



present subscribed their names to various sums amounting to 
nearly |450. 

On March 19, 1848, a general 
meeting of tiie subscribers to the 
Fund was held in the vestry room 
of the Synagogue Mickve Israel, 
then on Cherry Street. Abraham 
Hart was elected Treasurer. It was 
stated that a second ball in aid ot 
the Fund had been given, and it 
was as brilliant a success as the first 
one. As a result $427.15 had been 
invested in the names of the Trus- 
tees. Simon Elfelt having declined 
to serve as a member of the Board 
of Trustees, and as the meeting had 
resolved upon two additional mem- 
bers, Julius Stern and I. H. Blum were duly appointed. 
It is interesting to note that as the funds were deposited 
with the Pennsylvania Company, Hyman Grntz, the 
president, was notified of the 
appointment of the additional 
members. 

At the next meeting, the Rev. 
Isaac Leeser, after dwelling upon 
the necessity and the benefits of a 
Hebrew education for Jewish chil- 
dren, called up a resolution which 
was unanimously adopted. It pro- 
vided " that a committee of three 
persons (afterwards increased to sev- 
en) be appointed to draft a constitu- 
tion and by-laws for the formation 
of a Hebrew Education Society." 
Agreeable to this resolution the 
chair appointed as the committee, the Rev. Isaac Leeser, 
Hyman Polock, L. Bomeisler, Julius Stern, Abraham S. 




MARCUS CAUFFMAN 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 1818—1856 



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Wolf, Joseph M. Asch and Simon Elfelt. A committee was 

also appointed to prepare printed circulars and distribute 

them to all Jewish families. 

On June 4, the Constitution and By-Laws having been 

unanimously adopted, the chair was authorized to call a 

meeting for the 
organization of 
the Society and 
the election of 
officers. 

On July 
16, 1848, the 
Hebrew Educa- 
tion Society 
was formally or- 
ganized. Zadoc 
A. Davis, who 
had acted as 
chairman of all 
the previous 
meetings, was 
unable to be 
present owing 
to absence from 
the city, and 
Solomon Solis 
served in his 
stead . 

Following 
is a copy of the 
Co n s t i t u t i o n 
and By-Laws 

adopted on June 4, and which was formally signed by the 
members on July 16, 1848 : 




ABRAHAM S. WOLF 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 1.S4S -1849 

Vice-President, 1849—1854 

President, 1854—1862 

Board of Officers, 1862-1876 



CONSTITUTION 



AND 



BY-LAWS 



OP THE 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY OF 
PHILADELPHIA. 

ADOPTED AT A TOWN MEETING OF ISKAELPrES, 

ON SUNDAY, SI\^\N 3, 5608, JUNE 4, 1848. 



PHILADELPHIA : 

C. SHERMAN, PRINTER. 
5(308. 



OFFICERS FOR THE FIRST YEAR. 

President, 
SOLOMON SOLIS. 

Vice- President, 
Simon Elfelt. 

2'reasurer, 
Abraham Hart. 

Secretar}/, 
Moses A. Dropsie. 

Assistant tSecretari/, 
Simon M. Klasser. 

Manac/crs, 

Isidore Biuswauger, Moses Nathans, 

Solomon N. Carvalho, Joseph New house, 

Marcus CaufFman, Hyman Polock, 

Lewis J. (Johen, Julius Cohen, 

Jacob Langsdorf, Herman Van Beil, 

Isaac Leeser, Abraham S. Wolf. 

School Directors, 
M. a. Dropsie, A. Hart, I. Leeser, S. Soils, A. S. Wolf. 

I'rustees, 
Mayer Arnold, Mos. Nathans, Jo^. Schoneman. 



PREAMBLE. 



Penetrated witli the conviction of the necessit}' of a 
thorough religious education of all Israelites, and in view of 
the absence of proper schools where the same can be imparted; 
we the subscribers have associated ourselves for the purpose 
•of raising funds, and to effect therewith the establishment of 
such schools, as will enable all Israelites of this city and 
county, to receive instruction in religion, the Hebrew and the 
English languages, the usual branches of education, and all 
such other subjects as the circumstances of the funds and the 
•capacity of the scholars may enable the directors to afford. 



CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE I. 

Sect. 1. The name of the Society shall be "The Hebrew 
Education Society of Philadelphia." anj:: "]i]n nnnn 

ARTICLE 11. 

Sect. 1. Every member shall pay three dollars per an- 
num, in sucli manner as may be fixed by the by-laws. 

Sect. 2. Any male Israelite of twenty-one years of age, 
may apply to any meeting of the Board to be elected a mem- 
ber, and if he receives a majority of the votes of the Board 
present at the next stated meeting of the Board, he shall be a 
member of this Society. It is, however, provided, that the 
Board may postpone the election of any applicant to a future 
meeting if they deem it proper. 

Sect. 3. No member one year in arrears shall be 



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allowed to vote or hold office, unless previously liberated from 
his dues by the Board of Olficers. 

Sect. 4. Every member after his election, shall sign, 
the Constitution before he shall be entitled to vote, 

ARTICLE III. 

Sect. 1. The officers of this Society shall be one Presi- 
dent, one Vice-President, one Treasurer, one Secretary, one 
Assistant Secretary, and twelve Directors, who shall constitute 
the Board of Managers, and hold their respective offices for 
one year, or till their successors shall have been chosen, in 
case no election shall be held at the regular day for elections. 

Sect. 2. The annual election shall hereafter be held on 
the Sunday before Shebuoth. 

Sect. 3. The Board shall meet four times every year, 
or oftener if recjuired by the President, or three members of 
the Board ; the first meeting every year shall be held three 
weeks after the annual election, and quarterly thereafter ; 
and at the first meeting of the Board, they shall elect the 
School Directors, to serve for one year. 

Sect. 4. There shall be elected by and from the Board 
of Managers, five School Directors, who shall meet monthly, 
and have the superintendence of the school or schools to be 
established, and report their proceedings to the cjuarterly 
meeting of the Board of Managers. 

Sect. 5. All vacancies are to be filled by the Board of 
Managers. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Sect. 1. The President shall preside at all meetings of 
the Society and Board, and in his absence the Vice-President; 
and in the absence of both, the meeting shall appoint a 
chairman. 

Sect. 2. After the accounts sluxll have been passed by 
the Board, the President shall draw his warrant on the- 
Treasurer, from a printed order-book (with a cheque mar- 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 1 1 



gin), without which no money shall be drawn from the 
treasury. Provided always, that he may draw for any ac- 
count not exceeding ten dollars, without first laying the same 
before the Board. 

Sect. 3. In his absence, or sickness, the Vice-President 
(or other presiding officer), shall have the same power.' 

Sect. 4. He shall have power to convene meetings of 
the Society, Board of Managers, and School Directors, when- 
ever he may deem it necessary. 

Sect. 5. Whenever ten members address a written ap- 
plication to the President, stating the object of the call, he 
shall forthwith convene a general meeting for not later than 
ten days after the requisition has been presented to him. 

ARTICLE V. 

Sect. 1. The Treasurer shall take charge of all the 
moneys and securities of the Society, and he shall credit 
every member, donor, or contributor, with his or her contri- 
bution. 

Sect. 2. He sliall pay all orders duly signed by the 
President or other presiding officer. 

Sect. 3. He shall keep a regular account of all sums 
received and paid by him, and furnish a statement of the 
funds in his hands at every meeting of the Board, and a gen- 
eral statement to the yearly meeting of the Society. 

Sect. 4. He shall give such security' for the faithful 
performance of his duties, as shall be approved of by the 
Board of Managers. 

Sect. 5. He shall deliver all moneys, papers, and ac- 
counts, and all other property of whatsoever kind, belonging 
to this Societ}^ to his successor in office, within two weeks 
after the election of said successor, on being duly notified by 
the President, or other presiding officer. 



ARTICLE \l. 
Sect. 1. The Secretary shall attend all general and 



12 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Board meetings, and shall keep fair and correct minutes of 
all transactions of said meetings. 

Sect. 2. He shall make out all bills, and hand them 
over to the Treasurer for collection. 

Sect. 3. The Assistant Secretary shall make out all 
notices for meetings, and attend the meetings of the School 
Directors, keep the minutes of their transactions, and perform 
all the duties of the Secretary in his absence. 

ARTICLE VII. 

THE SCHOOL. 

Sect. 1. As soon as the funds in hand, and the sub- 
scription of the members will warrant the undertaking, a 
school or schools, for both males and females, shall be estab- 
lished, in which are to be taught in the first instance Hebrew, 
according to both the German and Portuguese reading, Reli- 
gion, and the elementary branches of an English education, 
the higher branches to be added as the scholars progress, and 
the funds will permit. 

Sect. 2. The school shall be placed under the direction 
of the five School Directors, who shall receive all applications 
for admission into the school, and no scholar shall be admit- 
ted without a written order of said Directors. 

Sect. 3. The Board of Managers shall have the power 
to fix annually the amount which each pay scholar shall 
have to pay for tuition. 

Sect. 4. The School Directors shall admit all appli- 
cants (provided of good character) at the price affixed by the 
Board of Managers, if the application is signed by the parent 
or guardian, and states that the scholar is to be a pay scholar; 
and should the parent or guardian desire the scholars admit- 
ted as non-paying ones, they are to receive them as such. 

Sect. 5. The Board of Managers shall have the power 
to elect the teachers after application of the candidates shall 
have been made to, and they have been recommended by the 
School Directors. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 13 



Si'X'T, 6. The teachers' sahiries shall be paid by the 
Board of Managers. 

Sect. 7. The number of teachers shall be determined 
every year by the Board of Managers, according to the circum- 
stances of the Society, and the wants of the scholars. 

Sect. 8. The salaries of the teachers shall be paid quar- 
terly, after having been passed on by the Board of Managers, 
and the orders being duly signed by the President or other 
presiding officer. 

Sect. 9. The Chairman of the School Directors shall be 
ex-officio President of the school or schools to be established 
by this Society. 

Sect. 10. The branches of education shall be deter- 
mined from time to time by the Board of Managers. 

Sect. 11. The School Directors shall have power to 
form a code of laws for the government of the school, to be 
submitted for approval to the Board of Managers. 

Sect. 12. Tiie choice of books, etc., and the giving of 
premiums, as also the formation of a school library, are to be 
left to the School Directors. 

Sect. 13. The location of the school or schools to be 
established by this Society, is to be left to the Board of 
Managers. 



ARTICLE VIII. 

Sect. 1. The Society shall elect three Trustees, in 
whose names the stocks, funds, and property of the Society 
shall be vested, and whenever the Society shall be incorpo- 
rated, they shall transfer all the said stocks, funds, and prop- 
erty belonging to the Society, to the corporation. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Sect. 1. All elections for officers shall be by written 
ballot. 



14 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE X. 

Sect. 1. Tliis Constitution shall not be altered, repealed 
or amended, except the proposition shall have been made at 
one general meeting and passed on by the votes of two-thirds 
of the members present, at a subsequent general meeting, pro- 
vided the amendment has been inserted in the notice of the 
meeting. 

ARTICLE XL 

Sect. 1. This Society shall not be dissolved while there 
are five members, and when this shall be the case, the re- 
maining members shall place the funds in some public secur- 
ities, to be held by three trustees in trust, for purposes of edu- 
cation, as contemplated by this Constitution, and transferred 
to any other Society which may hereafter be formed on a 
similar plan, and for similar purposes, in the Cit}' and County 
of Philadelphia ; the Trustees are to be empowered to pay 
over the annual interest for the education of Hebrew children 
for the purposes herein mentioned. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Sect. 1. Tlie Society shall have })Ower to pass all regu- 
lations and by-laws, not repugnant to this Constitution, the 
Jewish laws, and the Constitution and laws of the United 
States and the State of Pennsylvania. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

Sect. 1. Any officer or member may be expelled, or 
otherwise dealt with, by the Society, on an impeachment, 
provided such impeachment is signed by at least four mem- 
bers, and a copy of the same, with the notice of time and 
place of meeting, be furnished the accused, at least one week 
previously. Two-thirds of the members of the Society pres- 
ent at anv such meeting sliall determine the guilt or inno- 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 15 



-cence of the accused; provided, always, that the Board may 
suspend any member of the Board under the above reguhi- 
tions, subject to an appeal to the Society. 



BY-LAWS. 



Sect. 1. Half an hour after the time specified in the 
notices for calling the meeting, the President or other presid- 
ing officer, shall take the oliair. The order of business shall 
be as follows : — 

I. The roll shall be called. 

II. The minutes of the preceding meeting shall be read 
and approved of, or amended if any error have been commit- 
ted. 

III. Election of officers shall take place. 

IV. Communications to the Society shall be read. 

V. Reports of committees shall be read. 

VI. Business laid over from a former meeting shall be 
attended to. 

VII. New business shall then be introduced. 

Sect. 2. No motion shall be received unless it is sec- 
onded ; and if requested by the chair, it is to be reduced to 
writing. Every motion is to be stated from the chair before 
debate shall be had thereon ; and until it shall be decided, no 
other shall be received, except to amend or postpone the orig- 
inal motion, or a motion to adjourn, which shall always be in 
order, and be decided without debate ; and no motion to re- 
consider shall be received unless the mover and seconder have 
voted with the majority. (Questions of filling up blanks shall 
be taken first on the highest number; and no member shall 
speak more than twice upon any question, unless permitted 
by the chair. 

Sect, 3. The yeas and nays shall be taken, if required 



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by four members of the Society or two of the Board, and en- 
tered on the minutes. 

Sect. 4. The presiding officer shall appoint all commit- 
tees, unless otherwise ordered by the Society, and may vote 
on the following subjects : — the revision of the constitution or 
by-laws, and expulsion of a member; but in no other case, 
except when the meeting is equally divided, when he shall 
have the casting vote. 

Sect. 5. Thirteen members shall form a quorum of the 
Society, and four of the Board and three School Directors 
sliall form a quorum for the transaction of all business. 

Sect. 6. If the Treasurer is compelled to be absent from 
town for more than two weeks, he is to place the funds of the 
Society in the hands of the Vice-President, who is then to act 
as treasurer 'pro tern. 

Sect. 7. The Board, if deemed requisite, may employ a 
suitable person to deliver the notices for the meetings of the 
Society or Board, and to act as collector, and allow him a 
compensation for his services. 

Sect. 8. The following fines shall be enforced : — A 
member refusing to act as President, when elected, shall be 
fined fo.OO ; Vice-President, Secretary, or Treasurer, $3.00 ; a 
member of the Board, or School Director, $1.50. A member 
behaving disorderly at any meeting, not exceeding (at the 
option of the presiding officer), 50 dollars ; provided always, 
tiiat a person who has served two years, shall not be fined for 
refusing to hold office for a space of three years after the ex- 
piration of his second term ; and provided an appeal maj'^ al- 
ways be had to the Society. 

Sect. 9. Any member not paying his annual subscrip- 
tion for two years, or refusing to pay his fines, may be ex- 
pelled by the Board, unless excused by the Society. 

Sect. 10. Every member at a meeting shall vote upon 
all questions, unless excused by the Society or Board, as the 
case may be. 

Sect. 11. Collections are to be made quarterly. 

Sect. 12. No alteration, amendment, or addition to these 



HEBREW EI) VC AT ION SOCIETY. 



17 



by-laws shall be made, unless proposed at one meeting of the 
Board or Society, and confirmed at the next meeting of the 
Society, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members present. 



LIST OF iMEMBERS. 



Lewis M. Allen, 
Mayer Arnold, 
David Barnet, 
A. I. H. Bernal, 
Isidore Biuswauger, 
Solomon X. Carvalho, 
Marcus Cauffman, 
Lewis J. Cohen, 
Myer D. Cohen, 
Julius Davidson, 
Zadok A. Davis, 
Henry De Boer, 
Moses A. Dropsie, 
Solomon Eckstein, 
Simon Elfelt, 
Wm. Florance. 
P. Friedenberg, 
J. Geisseuberger, 
M. Gerstly, 
Abraham Hart, 
Selig Hohenfels, 
Aaron Isaacs, 
Solomon Isaacs, 
Julius Jacob, 
Israel Jacob, 



Alfred T. Jones, 
Simon M. Klasser, 
B. Klein, 
Jacob Langsdorf, 
Isaac Leeser, 
David Levin, 
Moses Nathans, 
N. E. Nelson, 
Joseph Newhouse, 
George Phillips, 
Hyman Polock, 
Michael Reinhard, 
Joseph Schoneman,. 
M. Seideubach, 
David H. Solis, 
Solomon Solis, 
Julius Stern, 
L. Sulzberger, 
David Van Beil, 
Herman Van Beil, 
Moses Vanderslice, 
Abraham S. Wolf, 
Abraham Wolfl", 
Samuel Wolff, M. D., 
Isaac Yasener. 



18 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



The first officers of the Societ}' were elected at this meet- 
ing : Solomon Solis, President; Simon Elfelt, Vice-President; 
Abraiiam Hart, Treasurer ; Zadoc A. Davis, Secretar}^ and 
S. M. Klasser, Assistant Secretary. The first Board of 
Directors were : Abraham S. Wolf, Hyman Polock, 
Moses A. Dropsie, Marcus Cauftnian, Julius Stern, Joseph 

Newhouse, Moses 
Nathans, Jacob 
Langsdorf, H. Van 
Beil, Isaac Leeser, 
Lewis J. Cohen 
and Alfred T. 
Jones. Three trus- 
tees to take charge 
of the old Hebrew 
School Fund were 
Moses Nathans, 
Mayer Arnold and 
Joseph S c h on e- 
man. They were 
instructed by reso- 
lution to apply to 
the five trustees, 
the guardians of 
the money " col- 
lected for the pur- 
pose of promoting 
education among 
Israelites of Phila- 
delphia," and to 
receive the funds which had been deposited by tliem with the 
Pennsylvania Company. At a subsequent meeting Moses A. 
Dropsie was elected secretary in place of Zadoc A. Davis, who 
had declined to serve, and Isidore Binswanger and Solomon 
N. Carvalho were added to the Board of Directors, owing to 
the resignation of Alfred T. Jones and to the election of Mr. 
Dropsie. 




SOLOMON KOIJS 

Cliaiter Mpuiljer 

First President, 1848 iJied, 1854 



HEBRE W ED UCA TIC) N SO CIE T Y 



19 



A curriculum and rules for the government of the scliool 
were drawn up by a committee, of which the Rev. Isaac 
Leeser was chairman. There were to he seven classes, and 
the syllabus of 
instruction re- 
minds one as 
befitting a col- 
lege more than 
a school. "Eng- 
lish and He- 
brew spelling 
and reading," 
were to be 
taught to the 
first class, while 
the more ad- 
vanced pupils 
were to be in- 
s t r u c t e d in 
" g eo m e t r y, 
natural history, 
natural philos- 
ophy, Rabbin- 
ical literature, 
French, G e r - 
man, Latin, 
Greek, botan}' 
and chemistry. 

The Rev. 
Isaac Leeser, 
Abraham S. 

Wolf and Abraham Hart were appointed a committee to 
petition the state legislature for a charter, and on April 7, 
1849, " An Act to Incorporate the Hebrew Education Soci- 
ety," received the sanction of the Governor. In addition to 
the preparatory schools, the Society was authorized by its 
charter to establish a college, with power to confer degrees. 




MOSES A. DROPSIE 
Charter Member 
Secretaiv, 1S4S— 1849 Board of Officers, 1849—1861 

^'ice-Presiflent, 1861— 1S62 President, 1862—1870 

Board of Officers, 1870—1871 Board of Officers, 1871—1877 

President, 1889—1892 IJfe Member of Board of Officers 

President Maimonides College 



20 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

Following is a copy of the Charter approved April 7, 
1849, and also the Supplementary Act approved April 11, 
1866 : 

AN ACT 

TO Incorporate the Hebrew Education Society of 

PniLADELrHIA. 



Section 1. Be it enacied by the Senate and House of Rep- 
resentatives of the Commomvealth of Pennsylvania, in General 
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the 
same. That Solomon Solis, Simon Elfelt, Abraham Hart, 
Moses A. Dropsie, Solomon N. Carvalho, Isidore Binswanger, 
IMarcus CaufFman, Lewis J. Cohen, Simon M. Klosser, Jacob 
Langsdorf, Isaac Leeser, Moses Nathans, Joseph Newhouse, 
Hyman Polock, Julius Stern, Herman Van Beil, Abraham S. 
Wolf, Lewis M. Allen, Mayer Arnold, Simon W. Arnold, 
David Barnett, Leon Berg, A. I. H. Bernal, Bernard Blum, 
Myer D. Cohen, Julius Davidson, Zadoc A. Davis, Henry De- 
Boer, Solomon Eckstein, David Eger, William Florance, P. 
Friedenberg, Solomon Gans, J. Geisenberg, M. Gerstley, Jacob 
Gumpel, Selig Hohenfels, Aaron Isaacs, Solomon Isaacs, Julius 
Jacobs, Israel Jacobs, B. Klein, Henry Lazarus, David Levine, 
N. E. Nelson, Joseph A. Levy, George Phillips, Michael 
Reinhard, Joseph Schoneman, M. Seidenbach, Henry Simson, 
David H. Solis, Mayer Sternberger, L. Sulzberger, David Van 
Beil, Simon Sternberger, Moses Vanderslice, Abraham Wolff, 
Isaac Tassner and Doctor Samuel Wolff, and all and every 
other person or persons who shall hereafter become members 
of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia, be and are 
hereby created and made a corporation or body politic and 
corporate by the name and style of " The Hebrew Educa- 
tion Society of Philadelphia," and by that name shall have 
perpetual succession, and be capable in law to take, hold and 
dispose of estates, real and personal whatsoever, and to sue 
and be sued, and to receive and make all deeds, transfers, 
contracts, conveyances and covenants whatsoever, and to 
make, have and use a common seal, and the same to change 



HEBRE ir ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 21 

and renew at pleasure, and generally to do every other act or 
thing necessary to carr}^ into effect the provisions of this act, 
and promote the objects and designs of said corporation. 

Sec. 2. The object and design of the said corporation 
shall be the establishment of a school or schools within the 
limits of the city and county of Philadelphia, in which are to 
be taught the elementar}^ branches of education, together 
with the sciences, and modern and ancient languages, always 
in combination with instruction in Hebrew language, litera- 
ture and religion, in the manner that may be determined, 
from time to time, by the proper officers of the Society, and 
as the same may be set forth in their Constitution and By- 
Laws and School Regulations ; Provided, said Constitution, 
By-Laws and Regulations are not inconsistent with this 
charter, or with the Constitution of the United States, or the 
Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth. 

Sec. 3. It shall also be lawful for the said corporation 
to establish, whenever their funds will permit the same to be 
done, a superior seminary of learning within the limits of 
this Commonwealth, the faculty of which seminary shall have 
power to furnish to graduates and others the usual degrees of 
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Law and 
Divinity, as the same is exercised by other colleges established 
in this Commonwealth. 

Sec. 4. The Societ}^ shall have power to adopt a Con- 
stitution and make By-Laws, and the same to amend, alter or 
repeal at pleasure. 

Sec. 5. The said Society shall not at any time have, 
hold, enjoy or receive a clear yearly income exceeding twelve 
thousand dollars, without first obtaining authority from the 
Legislature of this Commonwealth. 

Sec. 5. The Legislature shall have power at any time, 
when the privileges hereby granted shall appear injurious to 
the public, to repeal, alter or amend this act ; but no such 
repeal, alteration or amendment shall affect any engagement 
to which the said corporation shall have become a party pre- 
vious thereto ; and in case of such repeal the said corporation 



22 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

shall have a reasonable time to bring their accounts to a final 
settlement and termination. 

(Signed) WILLIAM F. PACKER, 

Speaker of the House of Ecprcsentativcs. 
(Signed) GEORGE DARSIE, 

Speaker of the Senate. 



Approved — The seventh day of April, one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-nine (1849). 

(Signed) WM. F. JOHNSON. 



An Act supplementary to an Act to incorporate the He- 
brew Education Society of Philadelphia, approved April 
seventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine (1849). 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 
General Assembl}^ met, and it is hereby enacted by the 
authority of the same, that the pupils of the school or schools 
of the Hebrew Education Society possessing the qualifications 
prescribed for the admission of pupils into the boys' and girls' 
high schools of the City of Philadelphia, shall be admitted to 
the said boys' and girls' high schools without any previous 
attendance in the public schools of the First School District. 
(Signed) JAMES R. KELLEY, 

Spealrr of the House of Representatives, 
(Signed) DAVID FLEMING, 

Speaker of the Senate. 



Approved — The eleventh day of April, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-six (1866). 

(Signed) A. G. CURTIN. 

At the meeting May 13, 1866, the following vote of 
thanks was recorded : 

"Resolved, that the thanks of the Society he given to James Free- 
born, Esq., for his faithful services in procuring the supplement to the 
Act incorporating this Society. " 



HEBREW EDUCATIOX SOCIETY. 



23 



All event of unusual interest in tlie history of the Jews 
of Philadelphia, was the opening of the first school of the 
Society, on Monday, April 7, 1851. The hall of the old 
Phoenix Hose Company on Filbert (then Zane) street between 
Seventh and Eighth streets, had been selected by the Board of 
School Directors, 
and comfortable 

rooms were fitted \^ 

up for the recep- "" 

tion of the pupils. 
The Hebrew Sun- 
day-School, the 
oldest Jewish Sun- 
d a y-s c h o o 1 in 
America, then oc- 
cupied part of the 
same building. It 
had been in exist- 
e n c e thirteen 
years. On Sun- 
day, April 6,1851, 
the Rev. Isaac 
Leeser delivered 
the opening ad- 
dress, in which 
he emphasized 
the importance of 
Hebrew education 
and the great 
good about to be 
accomplished. 
" You )iever, we trust," he said, " will regret the exertions 
and outlay you have made in this cause;" — and we all know 
to-day that his words rang true. 

The next day the school was opened, twenty-two i)Upils 
being present. Rich and poor freely mingled, and no one, 
except the Board of School Directors, knew who were pay 




ISIDORE BINS WANG EK 

Charter Member 
Board of Officers, ISJ.S— 1870 

President, 1.S7C— 11S7.S 

Board of Officers, 1S78— 1880 

Trustee Maimonides College 



24 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




MISS EVELYN BOMEISLER 
First English Teacher 



scholars and who were not. Michael M. Allen was the first 
instructor in Hebrew, and Miss Evelyn Bomeisler taught the 
English branches. Seven weeks after 
the opening of the school the number of 
pupils had increased to seventj'-one, and 
an additional corps of instructors was 
found to be necessary. Miss Anna Mur- 
ray and Miss Clara Weil (who subse- 
quently became the wife of the Rev. Di'. 
Sabato Morals), were elected assistant 
teachers. The school, under the skillful 
direction of its teacher and of the Board 
of School Directors, prospered from the 
start ; the attendance increased, the do- 
nations became larger, a greater inter- 
est was manifested in its work. The 
Mickve Israel Congregation appropriated two hundred dol- 
lars, and the members of the Congregation Rodef Shalom 
asked that a new school be started in a part of the city more 
accessible to German residents. In this connection it may be 
of interest to many of the friends of the 
Society to recall to their minds the names 
of those who were the first pupils of the 
school, and at the same time show that 
the neighborhoods wliere Jews formerly 
resided were, in a measure, again occu- 
l)ied by later arrivals. 

On March 19, 1851, "the following 
names of scholars were given in :" 
Emanuel Goldstein, 8 Crown street ; 
Julia Lieber, Race, between 9th and 10th; 
Cecelia Eger, oG Wood street ; Frances 
Eger, 36 Wood street ; Hyman New- 
house, 35 Marshall street ; Henry Clay 
Newhouse, 35 Marshall street. On March 30th : Jacob S. 
Cohen, 86 N. 7th ; Leon Cohen, 86 N. 7th ; Matilda Levy, 
185 South street : Julia Gumpel, Hannah Gumpel, Samuel 







JACOB GUMPEL 
Charter Member 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



25 




Dk. AARON S. BETTELHEIM 

Prof. Maimonides College 

(Mishna and Shulchan Aruch) 

Board of Officers, 18(37—1869 



Gumpel, Dianna Gumpel, Moses Gumpel, Bultomvood street 
above lOtb, next to the public scbool, soutli side; Caroline 

Spatz ; Benjamin Blooniingdale, 5tli 
below Willow : L. G. Blooniingdale, 
5tli below Willow ; Theodore Potts- 
damer, Lewis Pottsdamer, 6 Brown's 
Court, Newmarket below Coates. 

On April 7th, the following names 
were received : Jacob Hyneman, 22 8. 
3d street ; Augustus Hyneman, 22 S. 
3d street; Ansel Romberg, 17 Cherry 
street ; Moses Homberg, 17 Cherry 
street; Isaac Homberg, 17 Cherry 
street; Abraham Eckstein, 12 Wood 
street ; Abraham Lipman, 222|^ South 
street ; Louisa Lipman, 222J South 
street ; Charity S. Ritterband, 8(3 Arch 
street ; Anne Hyneman, 3d above Tammany ; Rachael Hyne- 
man, 3d above Tammany ; Barton Hyneman, 3d above Tam- 
many. From this time on until May 12th, the following : 
Henry M. Davis, 365 South street ; 
Hannah Stein, Brown's Court, Frank- 
lin near Coates ; Emma Rosenberg, 
Newmarket and Green ; Edward 
Goldman, North street, between 10th 
and 11th, above Race ; Julia Arnold, 
5th and Noble ; Alice Arnold, 5th and 
Noble ; Benjamin Baer, McCloud's 
Court, 4th and Race ; Rebecca Baer, 
McCloud's Court, 4th and Race ; Leah 
Jacob, South, between 7th and 8th ; 
Isabella Jacob, South, between 7th and 
8th ; Israel Jacob, South, between 7th 
and 8th ; M. Croneberg, Vernon street; 
Miriam Marcuse, 494 Market street ; 
Pina Marcuse, 494 Market street ; Jette Marcuse, 494 Market 
street ; I. H. Harvey, 3d below South : Frances Harvey, 3d 




CHARLES BLOOMINGDALE 
Board of Officers, 1856— 1SC5 
Trustee Maimonides College 



26 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



below South ; Eleazer Marcus, 260 S. 6th street ; Coroline 
Marcus, 260 S. 6th street; Clara Levi, 209 S. 6t'h street; 
Israel Levi, 209 S. 6th street ; Theodore Mayer, 4th near 
Arch ; Michael Gothelf, 250 South street ; Clara Gothelf, 2oO 
South street ; Fanny Gothelf, 250 South street ; Anna Fulda, 

S o u t h , be- 
tween 6th and 
7th; Abraham 
H 0^ gen berg - 
er, Coates near 
2d ; Caroline 
Pr a g heinier, 
150 N. Front; 
S. Pragheim- 
e r , 15 N. 
Front ; Isaac 
Lang, 29S N. 
10th; Ansel 
Lang, 298 N. 
10th; Orlando 
Nathans, Ju- 
dith Nathans, 
Helen Nath- 
ans, Cornelius 
N a t h a n s ^ 
Chestnut st., 
near 20th.* 

The request 
f o r a n e w 
school made 
by the Congre- 
gation Rodef 
Shalom met with a general response, and at the annual meet- 




HON. MAYER SULZBERGER 

Board of Officers, 1866— 18S0 

Vice-President, 188C— 1881 

Hebrew Teacher 

Trustee Mainionides College 

Secretary ]\Iainioiiides College 



*NoTE — At that time the numbers on houses were not arranged 
according to squares running north and south or east and west, but 
were numbered eonHecutively witliout reference to intervening .streets. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



27 



ing of the Society, held May 23, 1852, in pursuance of the 
subject, the following formal communication from the Con- 
gregation Rodef Shalom was received : 

Philadelphia, May 21, 1852. 
Gentlemen : 

"Being fully impressed with the necessity of educating our chil- 
dren in our owti 
schools w here 
they can obtain 
an English as 
well as Hebrew 
education a n d 
having learned 
with the liveliest 
interest the pro- 
gress of the 
scholars at the 
late examination 
of the schools 
under your di- 
rection ; last 
Monday night 
at a general 
meeting of the 
Congrega ti o n 
Rodef Shalom 
we were appoint- 
ed a committee 
to form some 
feasible plan to 
have a school or 
schools to be 
supported by the 
different C o n- 

gregations in this City for the instruction of our children under your 
superintendence. 

"We beg leave to state that the Congregatit)n which we have the 
honor to represent have a school where the children of the members of 
the Congregation receive a German and Hebrew education, but as the 
children attend the public schools and afterwards ours, so that they 




Lieut. JONATHAN M. EMANUEL 

Secretary, 1857—1863 



28 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




MAYER FRANK 
Board of Officer.*, 1870— 18' 



have no time for recreation, it would therefore be preferable if they 
could attend a school where the Hebrew and English are taught 
together. 

"Our school is supported from a tax on 
the seat-holders and costs us $950; this amount 
our Congregation would willingly contril)Ute 
if the other Congregations would in like pro- 
portion pay for the support of the schools. 

" Should you think favorably of a plan to 
form a school or more on a larger scale and 
appoint a committee, we will call with them on 
the different Congregations and solicit their co- 
operation and support." 

Yours Respectfully, 

o. 1 ( Jacob Langsdorf, 
^^g"^^^ ( Jacob Mayer. 

After a full discussion of the proposi- 
tion thus formulated, the chair appointed 
I. Binswanger, I. Leeser and M. A. Dropsie to confer with 
the Committee of the Congregation and report at the next 
meeting of the Board of Managers, wiiich report is as follows: 

"The undersigned connuittee, appointed to 
confer with the committee of the Congregation 
Rodef Shalom on the proposition submitted by 
them to the Hebrew Education Society and any 
other committee that may apply for the same pur- 
pose, beg leave to report, that they have had a 
conference with Messrs. J. Langsdorf, J. Mayer 
and Sol. Keyser of the above named committee 
(none other having made application ) and after an 
exchange of views and opinions came to the con- 
clusion that the only feasible plan would be for the 
said Congregation to raise either by taxation, 
subscriptions and voluntary contributions, or by 
whichever means they may see proper, the neces- 
sary amount to meet the expenses which this So- 
ciety would incur in opening another school for 160 pupils like the 
one already established, and then to enter into an agreement with the 
Board of the Hebrew Education Society for admitting the children of all 




DAVID EGER 
Charter Member 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



29 



their members and seat-holders as full pay scholars, and under the estab- 
lished rules and regulations, by paying a certain amount per annum, 
and in order that the said Congregation may have its full share of the 
management of the schools, your committee suggested that all the mem- 
bers and seat-holders who are interested in the prosperity of the school 
might become members of the Society by paying $3.00 per annum 
(after being duly 
proposed and 
elected.) 

"The prob- 
a b 1 e expenses 
without refer- 
ence to the fur- 
nishing of the 
school room were 
estimated by us 
at SI, 800 per 
annum. 

"Your com- 
mittee learned 
with much pleas- 
ure that these 
propositions, as 
submitted to the 
Con gregation 
Rodef Shalom 
by their com- 
mittee, who made 
great exertions 
in their behalf, 
were warmly ap- 
proved by the 
Cong re gat i on 
and the amount 

of $950 raised by them annually for educational purposes was at once 
appropriated, provided a sufficient amount can be raised to make up the 
difference of the sum necessary for the accomplishment of this project. 
"A subscription list was started and the sum of $197 already 
subscribed, (the subscriptions to be paid quarterly and to be for three 
years.) 




HYMAN POLAND 

Teacher in Hebrew School 

Prof. Maimonides College. (Hebrew Literature) 



30 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



"We trust that this undertaking may fully succeed and be as 
productive of good results to the Jewish youth of Philadelphia as the 
advancement of education and religious instruction always gives. 

"If the Congregation Kodef Shalom 
can and do offer the sum of $1,600 per 
annum for the tuition of their children, 
not exceeding 160 in number, and for 
every child above that number $10 ad- 
ditional ])er annum, your committee would 
respectfully recommend such offer to be 
accepted, provided the Hebrew Education 
Society has the use of their school room 
and its furniture for as long a period as 
the school remains in operation ; we also 
hope that the accession of members will 
enhance the income of the Society one or 
two hundred dollars, while everv one 
will then feel the importance of making 
up any deficiency that may arise. 




MASON HIRSH 
Board of Officers, 1874—1876 



The above is respectfully submitted 

Signed 



I. BiNSWANGER, 

I. Leeser, 

M. A. Dropsie, 

Committee. 



On motion of Mr. I. Leeser, sec- 
onded by A. T. Jones, the folio v\ing 
was unanimously adopted : 

" Resolved, That if the Congrega- 
tion Rodef Shalom can secure to the 
Education Society the sum of |1,G00 
per annum for a number of scholars not 
exceeding IGO, and $10 per annum for 
every additional one, that the School 
Directors be empowered to enter into 
the necessary arrangements to open an 
additional school, provided the said 
Congregation supply the school-room 
furniture." 

No further reference to this subject appears in the min- 
utes of the Society, and the mattter seems eventuallv to have 




LUCIEN MOSS 
Board of Officers, 1874—1877 
" 1S84— 1886 



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31 




JOSEPH NEWHOUSE 

Charter Member 

Board of Officer.s, 1818—1856 



been left without furtlier action. At this time, (1851:52), 
►Solomon Solis was President of the Society, and Abra- 

liam S. Wolf tlie Chairman of the 
Board of School Directors. Although 
the membership-list was growing and 
many contributed liberally towards its 
support, the receipts were unequal to 
the expenditures. The Board of Di- 
rectors recognized that something had 
to be done in order to meet the Soci- 
ety's obligations, and a plan to liqui- 
date this indebtedness was proposed 
that was as unique as it was success- 
ful. 

At a meeting of the Board of 
Managers, held October 26, 1851, a 
committee consisting of Moses Nathans, 
Hyman Polock, Isidore Binswanger, Z. A. Davis and Moses A. 
Dropsie, which had been appointed " to take into considera- 
tion the most feasible plan in order to raise funds for the 
benefit of the Society . . . ", made the following report : 

" Your coniniittee to take into consid- 
eration the most feasible plan to raise funds 
for the benefit of the Hebrew Education 
Society, beg leave to report that the follow- 
ing three propositions were submitted and 
considered by them : 

1. To give a series of lectures on the 
subject of our 'Religion, History and Edu- 
cation ' by the most eminent and available 
men. 

2. To give a concert, provided the aid 
of Mr. ISIaretzek and his company can be 
secured. 

3. To give a Ball, under the aus- 
pices of the Board of the Hebrew Educa- 
tion Society and thirteen gentlemen to be selected from the Jewish 
community in the City (in all 30) who are to appoint a committee of 
ten among themselves to serve as acting managers. 




JULIUS STERN 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, ISIS— 1850 



32 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY 



The first proposition, your committee deems inexpedient at 
present, as the funds of the Society do not allow trying an experiment 
which leaves any doubt of its success. 

The second was thought would prove most profitable to the 
Society, most welcome to the public and least troublesome to the 
Board, provided the gratuitous aid of ]\[r. Maretzek and at least part 

of his company, 
could be s e- 
cured; the 
committee en- 
deavored t o 
meet Mr. M. to 
solicit his aid 
and hear his 
views on the 
s u bj ec t, but 
failed in meet- 
ing him. 

The third 
proposition 
would also, no 
doubt, pro- 
mote the b- 
ject of the So- 
ciety, if the 
Board will it, 
and are ready 
to share the 
trouble a Ball 
imposes on 
them. All of 
which i s re- 
spectfully sub- 
mitted. " 




EDWIN W. ARNOLD 

Secretary, 1864—1866 



At a special meeting held November 28, 1852, the com- 
mittee reported that it had been decided on to oive a ball and 
names were suggested as managers ; but at the meeting of 
December 12th, the secretary stated " tliat it was utterly im- 
possible to get a sufficient number of gentlemen to serve as a 
Ball Committee, having personally notified most of those pro- 



HEBREW EDUCA TION SOCIETY. 



83 




MAYER ARNOLD 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 18.50—1860 



posed, a majority of whom had declined." It was then re- 
solved "to give a public dinner and invite to it several intiu- 
ential Israelites of Philadelphia, not 
members of the Society, as well as 
some men of national reputation, in 
order to give to the affair the necessary 
prominence and brilliancy." Abraham 
Hart was elected chairman or president 
of the " First Charity Dinner Commit- 
tee ;" Joseph H. Cohen, L. J. Leber- 
man, David Pesoa and Henry Cohen, 
vice - presidents ; Joseph Newhouse, 
treasurer, and Isidore Binswanger, sec- 
retary. The Fuel Society of Philadel- 
phia, being without a regular income 
sufficient to defray its running ex- 
penses, was in the same predicament 
as the Hebrew Education Society, and it was decided that one- 
third of the proceeds of the dinner should be turned over to 
the Fuel Society. Lyon J. Levy, at that time the most prom- 
inent .Jewish merchant in Philadelphia, was appointed chair- 
man of the Committee of Arrangements 
with the Rev. Isaac Leeser, Abraham S. 
Wolf, jVI. Cauffman, Jacob Langsdorf, 
Mayer Arnold, Simon W. Arnold, Zadoc 
A. Davis, Hyman Polock, Abraham Finzi, 
Alfred T. Jones, Moses Nathans, Moses 
A. Dropsie, E. S. Mawson, B. Greene- 
wald, Henry S. Allen, Samuel Elkin, 
M. D. Cohen, P. S. Rowland, S. Kayser, 
Lazarus Mayer, Joseph Einstein and 
Jacob Mayer. Abraham S. Wolf was 
chairman of the Dinner Committee, 
and the Committee on Collections were 
the following: L. J. Leberman, Isidore 
Binswanger, Joseph Newhouse, P. S. Rowland, Jacob Langs- 
dorf, Abraham S. Wolf, M. Cauffman and Abraham Hart. 




JOSEPH SCHOXEMAN 

Charter Member 
Board of Officers, IS'IS— 1850 



34 



HEB RE]V ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 



Two hundred and fifty dollars was subscribed by the 
Managers of the Society, to insure the success of the under- 
taking. 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers held January 4, 
1852, Mr. Hart, on behalf of tlie Committee for Collection, 

reported " that 
they have to 
the present time 
collected t w o 
hundred a n d 
twelve dollars, 
without having 
as yet called on 
any gentleman 
north of Market 
street. . " The 
following reso- 
lution proposed 
by liim (Mr. 
Hart) and sec- 
onded by Mr. 
1 ) i n s w anger 
was unanimous- 
ly adopted : 

" Resolved, 
That the thanks 
of this meeting 
]je tendered to 
the several gen- 
tlemen whose 
names are here- 
unto annexed for their generous and liberal donations in aid 
of the school established by the Hebrew Education Society, and 
that through their kindness the Managers hope to be enabled 
to continue the usefulness of the school, and that the Secre- 
tary be requested to send a copy of this resolution to the same." 
Donors' names: A. Hart, D. L. Moss, M. Cauffman, J. L. 




Dr. JACOB SOLIS COHEN 

Board of Officers, 1S64— 1S65 

Secretary, 1S66— 1868 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY 



35 



Moss, A. 8. Wolf, H. Gratz, L. J. Levy, Mr. Lazarus, Mitchell 
■& Allen, M. Nathans, S. Soils, G. Cromeline, A. Elkin, R. 
Cromeline, Jos. Newhouse, R. Mayers, L Binswanger, H. 
Polock, L Andrade. 

At the Board meeting, February 15th, the following 
names were ad- 
ded : B. Lieber, 
D. Samuels, S. 
Nathan, W. 
Cromeline, H. 
Le V ei s t e in, 
Mindel & Bros., 
I. J. Phillips, 
H. Pincus, L. 
Berg, G. D. 
Rosengarten, L. 
Mayer, Lowen- 
grund & Jacobs, 
P. Nathans, H. 
M. Phillips, 
Gans & Lie b- 
e r m a n , D . 
A b r a m s, M. 
Moyer, Bloom- 
i n g d a 1 e & 
Rhine, A. Op- 
pen heimer, M. 
Arnold, Is. 
Hyneman. 

At a meet- 
ing of the Board of Managers, held December 19, 1852, a let- 
ter from Mr. I. Binswanger, inclosing one from Mr. Jos. Selig- 
man of New York, president of the H. B. S. of that city, was 
read as follows : 

S. SoLis, EsQR., President of the H. E. S., Philada. 
Dear Sir: 

The very lively interest I feel in the prosperity of our Society, 




AARON LAZARUS 

Secretai-y, 1868—1870 



36 



HEBRE I V ED UCA TlOy SO CIET Y. 



induced me when I found last Sunday "that sufficient encouiagfirent 
was not given" to the projected Ball, to address a letter of inquiry to 

the President of the German H. B. S. , 
of N. Y, in regard to a Dinner; hoping 
that since many of the gentlemen com- 
prising our Board of Managers were sa 
much more in favor of a Dinner than a 
Ball, one might perhaps be gotten up, yield- 
ing even a larger amount to our Society 
than a Ball would have done: I there- 
fore take pleasure in enclosing to you here- 
with the answer received from N. Y. 

You will please use your own discre- 
tion in calling a special meeting of the 
Board to consider the expediency of giving 
an Anniversar}' Dinner for the benefit of 
our Society and the Fuel Society or not. 
Yours very Resp'y. 

(Signed) I. Binswaxger. 
[Enx'losure, — Copy. ] 

New York, 15 Deer., 1852. 
Pha. 




SOLOMON THALHEIMER 
Board of Officers, 1874—1876 



Dec. 16, '52. 



Mr. I. BiNSWAXGER 

Dear Sir : 

In reply to your inquiry respecting 
our Anniversary Dinner, I state to you the 
result of my experience at our last Din- 
ner: The viands, without wine, with which 
we were furnished by 31 r. Joseph Cohn, 
56 Orchard St., viz. $1.25 per head, a 
jNIr. A. Somers here furnishes, to my taste 
at least, a better dinner aud charges $1.37;;. 
We had about 325 guests ; they drank 
some 25 baskets of Champagne and 10 
doz. Hock, and smoked 2000 Segars ; our 
room cost us $150. Music $30. The wait- 
ers were furnished by Cohn ; our total 
expense was about $900. Our Rec'ts. $3,500. A very cheering re- 
sult for our Society, and trust you may be equally successful in rais- 
ing funds for your poor. 

With much Respect, Your friend aud Serv., 

(Signed) Jos. Seligman. 




SIMON LIVERIGHT 
Board of Officers, 1876—187 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



37 



Owing to the absence of INIr. Binswanger at this meeting, 
the matter was deferred to an adjourned meeting held Janu- 
ary 2, 1853, when "it was resolved that the Society should 
get up a dinner under the supervision of the Board and such 
other gentlemen as they may think fit to add to their num- 
ber, for the bene- 
fit of this and 
the Fuel So- 
ciety, f to the 
former and J to 
the latter, pro- 
vided a Cosher 
dinner can be 
procured on 
satisfac tory 
terms." 

The "First 
Charity D i n- 
ner " was held 
on the evening 
of February 23, 
1853, in the 
Sansom Street 
Hall (now occu- 
pied by Mac- 
Kellar, Smiths 
& Jordan, type- 
f o u n d e r s, on 
Sansom street 
below Seventh). 
" Of the many 

dinners that have been given in this city," said a writer 
(Arthur Cannon) in the North American of March 2, 1853, 
" which we have attended, this eclipsed them all in the order, 
propriety and good feeling manifested by the company, and 
the good taste that pervaded the whole of the arrangements, 
even the most minute, and which reflect great credit on the 




LEWIS M. ALLEN 

Charter Member 

Secretary, 1SG3 



38 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




MYER D. COHRN 
Charter Member 
Board of Offlcer.s 18^fl— 18.53 
1851—1855 



gentlemen who composed the Committee of Arrangements, 
. . . Covers were hiid for three hundred and fifty guests, 

and tlie dinner was prepared accord- 
ing to the Jewish custom in every 
particuhir. There was a bountiful 
supply of all the substantials, deli- 
cacies and luxuries of life ; the wines 
and liquors were of the choicest 
kinds, and in great profusion. The 
confectionary, pastry and ornament- 
al pieces were of a novel and beau- 
tiful description. The Hall was 
brilliantly illuminated by several 
massive chandeliers, in addition to 
which there were numerous wax 
candles, which diffused a soft and 
mellow light over the tables . . . 
At a quarter past seven o'clock Beck's celebrated band, with 
their new silver instruments, struck up a march when the 
President (Abraham Hart) entered the dining-hall, accom- 
panied by two of the speakers, and 
followed by the members of the 
Committee of Arrangements, each 
accompanying someone of the dis- 
tinguished guests." 

The President was supported 
on his right by George M. Dallas, 
former Vice-President of the United 
States ; Rev. Dr. Morris Raphall, of 
New York ; William B. Reed, then 
District Attorney of Philadelphia 
and a well-known literary man ; 
Morton McMichael, and others; and 
on the left by Dr. Morals ; Charles 
Gilpin, then Mayor of Philadelphia; 
the Rev. Samuel M. Isaacs, of New York ; the Rev. Isaac 
Leeser and David Paul Brown. The Rev. S. Morals opened 




JULIUS DAVID.«ON 
Charter Member 



HEBREW EDUCA TIOX SOCIETY 



39 




H. DeBOER 
Charter Member 
Board of Officers, 1859—1865 
' 1866—1868 



the banquet with a prayer, and said grace after meat in He- 
brew, when the goodly company had regaled themselves. 
George M. Dallas responded to the 
toast, " Civil and Religious Liberty," 
and his response was especially fine. 
In answering to the toast, "The 
Patriots of the Revolution," William 
B. Reed spoke of the part played by 
Jews in the war for independence. 
" There were .Jewish soldiers in our 
ranks. There was Jewish blood shed 
on our soil. There are .Jews now proud 
of their revolutionary lineage; and no 
word was said, no deed done by our 
Christian ancestors, whose wise coun- 
sels and brave spirits conducted and 
controlled the Revolution, to give pain 
or offence to that small l)ut devoted 
and devout band, the followers of Israel, who being here, 
acted up to their steady principles of loyalty to the land 
where their lot is cast." Terse, eloquent and pregnant 
with wit were the responses of Mor- 
ton McMichael, " The Press ;" Isaac 
Leeser, " Education ;" Moses A, 
Dropsie, "Our Glorious Mission;" 
Mayor Gilpin, " Philadelphia;" and 
the others, all of which, a chronicler 
relates, the audience received with 
" prolonged and enthusiastic ap- 
plause." 

Over five thousand dollars was 
received l)y the managers of the 
First Annual Charity Dinner, of 
which two thousand five hundred 
dollars (|2,524.64) went into the 
coffers of the Hebrew^ Education Society. So successful in 
every way was this, the virgin effort of tlie Boai'd of Manag- 




AARON ISAACS 
Charter Member 



40 



IIEBRE \V ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 




JULIUS JACOBS 
Charter Member 



ers, that it was resolved to make the banquet an annual affair 
and thus make permanent an enterprise, the only object of 

which was to fill the depleted treas- 
uries of PhiladoI[)liia's Jewish char- 
ities. 

The second dinner was held on 
Thursday evening, February 2, 1854, 
in the hall on Sansom street. Ab- 
raham Hart again served as Presi- 
dent and Joseph Newhouse as Treas- 
urer. The vice-presidents were L. 
J. Leberman, Isidore Binswanger, 
David Pesoa and Abraham S. Wolf 
Abraham Finzi acted as secretary. 
Solomon Solis was chairman of the 
Committee on " Toasts," Simon W. 
Arnold on " Arrangements," Abra- 
ham S. Wolf on "Dinner," L. J. Leberman on "Collections." 
Morton jNIcMichael, William B. Reed, Charles Gilpin, 
Dr. Isaacs and Dr. Raphall again graced the occasion with 
their presence. There were also pres- 
ent Dr. J. Iv. Mitchell, William Birney, 
the Rev. Jacob Frankel (who said grace 
in Hebrew) and Benjamin Harris 
Brewster, later Attorney General of the 
United States. Dr. Mitchell responded 
to the toast, " Our Sister Charities," 
and Mr. Brewster spoke with rare wit 
and eloquence upon "Civil and Relig- 
ious Liberty." The last toast, " Con- 
solidation, — the consolidation of the 
City and County of Philadelphia this 
week in our legislative halls; the con- 
solidation of the friends of humanity 
of all creeds this evening in our din- 
ing hall," was drunk with great fervor and enthusiasm by 
all the gentlemen present. Moses A. Dropsie, who had been 




ISRAEL JACOBS 
Charter Member 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 



41 



^' 



•'•'*-*»Sk 



again asked to respond to one of the toasts, was absent by 
reason of the death of his mother. This dinner has been called 
one of the notable events in Philadelphia Jewish history. 

The receipts from the second banquet gratified the man- 
agers and those interested in getting it up, — three thousand 
dollars was distri- 
buted among the 
societies. The He- 
b r e w Education 
Society received 
two-thirds and the 
remainder was di- 
vided among the 
Hebrew Fuel So- 
ciety, the Ladies' 
Hebrew Benevo- 
lent Society, the 
Ladies' German 
Benevolent S o - 
ciety, the Ladies' 
Hebrew Sewing 
Society and the 
United Hebrew 
Benificient Soci- 
ety. The year fol- 
lowing a ball was 
given instead of a 
dinner and proved 
such a success fi- 
nancially that it 
was thought expe- 
dient to continue this form of entertainment, and thus the 
Hebrew Charity Ball Association sprang into existence. It 
owes its origin to the members of a committee appointed by 
the President of the Hebrew Education Society, and it is this 
small band of devoted workers that made possible the 
association that annuallv gives a ball with such good 




ALFRED T. JONES 
Board of Officers, lSi8— 1850 

Secretary, 1850—1851 

Board of Officers, 1854—1862 

Vice-President, 1862—1867 

Board of Officers, 1867—1870 



42 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 




REV. JACOB FRANKEL 



results for the benefit of the Jewish poor of Philadelphia. 
There had been some changes in the faculty of the 
school. Michael M. Allen and Miss 
Bomeisler had resigned, and it was 
necessary to fill their places. Jacob 
Mendez De Solla was elected princi- 
pal, Mr. Edward H. Weil, instructor 
in the English branches ; Miss 
Wilhelmina Todd, Miss Marion 
Monachesi and Miss E. J. Wright, 
assistant teachers. The rooms in 
the Phoenix Hose House were no 
longer large enough to accomodate 
the increasing number of pupils 
who attended the sessions, and it 
was resolved to secure more com- 
modious cjuarters. The old Baptist church property on 
the east side of Seventh street, between Callowhill and Wood 
streets, was purchased and the building thoroughly renovated. 
It was dedicated on November 12, 1854, and the Rev. Isaac 
Leeser, Moses A. Dropsie, Dr. Morals, Rev. Gabriel Rape, Rev. 
Lazarus Naumberg and the Rev. Jacob Frankel took part in 
the services. The Hebrew Sunday School 
Society vacated theirrooms in the Phoenix 
Hose House at this time, and the schools 
were established in the Education Soci- 
ety's new edifice on Seventh street. 

The community of interest which 
the Hebrew Education Society centered 
through its activity at this period, is in- 
dicated by the following extract from the 
minutes of the meeting of the Board of 
Managers held August 3, 1856, when 



a communication from the Congrega- 




MICHAEL REINHARD 
Cliarter Meinlier 



tion Rodef Shalom was received and 

read, asking for the use of the lower room (of the school 

house. Seventh and Wood streets) as a temporary synagogue. 



HEBREW EDUCATIOX SOCIETY. 



43 



A, 




*-^' 



It was resolved, ' that the use of the lower room of the school 
house be granted to the Congregation Rodef Shalom free of 
charge, with the restriction that such use of the room is not 
to interfere with the permission given to the Hebrew Sunday 
School to occupy the same, and also that gas may be intro- 
duced at the expense of the Congregation.' " 

The society 
suffered a great 
loss in June, 
1854, in the deatli 
•of its first Presi- 
dent, Solomon So- 
lis, who had un- 
interrupted 1 y 
served since i t s 
foundation as its 
executive officer 
and as member of 
the Board of 
School Directors. 
Abraham S. Wolf 
was unanimously 
elected in his 
stead. The officers 
for the following- 
year (1855) were : 
Abraham S. Wolf, 
president ; Rev. 
Isaac Leeser, vice- 
president ; Abra- 
ham Hart, treasurer; M. M. Allen, secretary, and A. Finzi, as- 
sistant secretary. The Board of Managers: M. A. Mitchell, 
Mayer Arnold, M. A. Dropsie, Hyman Polock, Isidore Binswang- 
er, A. T. Jones, Jacob Mayer, L. J. Leberman, David Pesoa, Jos. 
Newhouse, M. Cauffman and Solomon Gans, Sr. Isidore Bins- 
wanger was chairman of the Board of School Directors. The 
names of over one hundred and seventy pupils were upon the 



\ 




SAMUEL HECHT 

Secretary, 187C — 1874 



44 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY 




DAVID H. S( )D18 
Charter Member 
Board of Officers, 1856—1860 
" 1863 1865 



rolls of the Society's schools, and the progress made by them 
was satisfactory in every way. The staff had been increased 

from three to seven members. 

The first legacy bequeathed to 
the Hebrew Education Society has 
§^ ML been the largest. Judah Touro, a 

* .. ^" pul3lic-s[)irited citizen of New Or- 

leans, and well-known as a philan- 
thropist, died on January 18, 1854, 
in the eightieth year of his age. To 
the Hebrew Education Society' he 
bequeathed twenty thousand dol- 
lars. 

The preparatory school contin- 
ued to receive the active support of 
the public, and the educational ad- 
vantages to be derived from attend- 
ance at its sessions, led to a large increase in the number of 
pupils. The attendance became more regular, and the repu- 
tation of the school increased. The president of the Hebrew 
Education Society, Abraham S. Wolf, in his annual report 
said, that " he had the pleasing 
intelligence to report that it (the 
school) had gained the reputation 
of being, if not superior, at least 
equal to any Hebrew school in the 
country." 

In 1862 Abraham S. Wolf, 
after serving for eight years as pre- 
siding officer of the Education So- 
ciety, declined a re-election. De- 
siring still to take an active interest 
in its work, he was elected a Direc- 
tor. Mr. Dropsie succeeded him as 
President. 

The following teachers have served in the day 
schools up to the present writijig : Miss Evelyn Bomeisler, 




LEOPOLD SULZBERGER 
Charter Member 



HEBREW EDUCATIOX SOCIETY 



45 




SIMON W. AUNuLi) 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, lti(iC— 1861 

" " " 1868—1874 

Trustee Mainionides College 



Michael M. Allen, Miss Anna Murray, Miss Clara Weil, Jacob 
Mendez De Solla, Edward H.Weil, Miss Wilhelraina Todd, 

George F. Hitchcock, Miss Marion 
Monachesi, Miss E. J. Wright, Rev. 
L. Naumberg; Eugene Smyth, Miss 
Breen, Miss Julia Goodfellow, Rev. 
S. C. Noot, Michael Heilprin, (teacher 
in German, French and the classics, 
who resigned in 1858 to become 
assistant editor of the New Ameri- 
can Cyclopedia); Miss Esther A. David- 
son, Miss Julia B. Eckstein, John 
McClintock, Miss T. J. Donnelly, 
Mayer Sulzberger, Madame M a r- 
millod, L. Buttenwieser, Hymaii 
Polano, Miss Ellen Phillips, W. J. 
Flynn, W.J. Rogers, Miss Charity S. 
Cohen, William H. Williams, Aaron S. Bettelheim, Mr. 
Braunschweig, Miss Huckle, H. Max Gerstenkrantz, Solo- 
mon Solis-Cohen, M. E. Lam, Cyrus Adler, Henry Samuel 
Morals, Moses De Ford, George Seldes, Charles D. Spivak, 
Isaac Husik and Hyman Grabosky. 

Since the establishment of the 
Hebrew Education Society in 1848, 
the Jewish population had largely in- 
creased. Synagogues had sprung up 
all over the country. Many of them 
failed for lack of an etficient person to 
minister to the wants of the congrega- 
tion. The incumbents were often men 
of scholarly attainments and well 
versed in Hebrew lore, but they could 
not speak English idiomatically and 
had not received the training so ne- 
cessary for a theologian. The greater 
number of them were, by profession, Hebrew teachers, — and 
they were nothing more. The establishment of a theological 




BERNARD BLUM 
Charter Member 



46 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

seminary was as much a necessity in 1865, as the schools 
for the education of Jewish children had been sixteen years 
before. 

No better illustration of the general conditions existing in 
the Jewish community of Philadelphia at this period can be 
afforded than by a citation of the Annual Report of the Soci- 
ety for 1864, which was apparently the first report printed for 
general circulation. We here append this document in full : 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 47 



ANNUAL REPORTS 

OF THE 

HEBREW KdUCATION SOCIETY 

OF 

PHILADELPHIA. 

Presented at the Meeting held on June 5th, 1864. 



The Animal Meeting of this institution \vas held on Sunday, June 
5th, at the school-house, when the following officers were elected to 
serve for the current year : Moses A. Dropsie, President ; Alfred T. 
Jones, Vice-President ; Ahni. Hart, Treasurer ; Edwin W. Arnold, 
Secretary ; Abm. Finzi, Assistant Secretary ; I. Binswanger, C. 
Bloomingdale, H. De Boer, Samuel Hecht, C. Johnson, Isaac Leeser, 
Augustus Mailert, Rev. Sabato Morals, Michael INIoyer, D, H. Solis, 
S. Teller, and A. S. Wolf, Managers. The subjoined Reports were 
then presented, and it was resolved that they should be inserted in the 
Occident, and issued also in pamphlet form, in order to inform the pub- 
lic of the working of this Association. It will be seen from the Report 
of the chairman of the school committee, that it is contemplated to en- 
deavor to enlist public sympathy with the work in hand, in order to 
collect the means to secure the establishment of a Hebrew College 
under the supervision of the Society, as its charter contemplates. It is 
needless for us to urge this matter on the attention of our friends, as 
we have done so often already. If the time for action has not yet 
come to commence a college for Israelites in this country, it must soon 
be so. Congregations not only increase by immigration, but also by 
the natural increase from children born in this country. But with the 
augmentation of numbers, knowledge has not progressed at an equal 
rate ; wealth has abundantly multiplied under God's blessing, but the 
means of training our youth for the service of Heaven are still lament- 
ably deficient. The question therefore resolves itself simply in this, 
Shall we make the effort, whether we fail or not, to erect a house for 
Jewish science in Philadelphia or elsewhere? The central position and 



48 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

general healthfulnef^s of the climate, together with the easy access to 
good libraries, would point out Philadelphia as the future central seat 
for Jewish education ; but we only express the general sentiment of our 
friends in stating, that no objection will be made on the part of our 
residents should the public good require the location of the school else- 
where. But let the eftbrt only be made to start the good enterprise, 
and let all who have it at heart lay aside all sectional and local jeal- 
ousy, and act as the best interests of religion demand. This is all we 
ask, and all that our Society contemplates by initiating the prei-ent 
movement. 



REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS. 

To the President and Meinhers of the \ 

Hebrew Education Society, j 

Gentlemen: 

A number of years have elapsed since the custom of presenting an 
Annual Report to the Society has been discontinued ; but as it is no 
doubt your wish to be informed of the progress of the Society and the 
school under its charge, I respectfully submit a statement of the aflairs 
of the Society. 

Through the exertions of the Managers, the investments of the 
Society have been kept almost unimpaired, a committee for the last 
three years having obtained voluntary contributions to cover the defi- 
ciency, which course, however, it is hoped will in future be obviated by 
every member securing at least an additional member, and by all 
uniting to promote the usefulness of the Society. The school is now in 
the fourteethth year of its existence, and is steadily, though quietly, 
progressing. The Rev. L. Butteuwieser, assisted by Mr. H. Polano, 
has charge of the Hebrew department, consisting of spelling, reading, 
grammar, translation, and a study of catechism. The English depart- 
ment is in the hands of Mr. John McClintock, assisted by Miss Esther 
Davidson and Miss Julia B. Eckstein, and comprises the following 
studies : spelling, reading, definition, grammar, etymology, geography, 
arithmetic, American history, English history, and natural philosophy. 
The German is taught by Mr. Butteuwieser and Latin by Mr. Mc- 
Clintock. The number of pupils on the roll at present is one hundred 
and eight (thirty-six girls and seventy-two boys), with the prospect of 
an increase after vacation, which will require the employment of an. 



HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 49 

other teacher for the primary class. Of the above number, sixty-six 
are non-paying pupils. 

The expectation of the Managers that the number of pupils would 
increase to such an extent as to require branch schools, is not likely to 
be realized, as a number of congregational schools have been lately 
established, which naturally prevents that accession to our school which 
it would otherwise have received. — Viewing these congregational 
schools as auxiliaries to ours, it was deemed of the utmost importance, 
and consequently resolved, to form a theological class for boys not less 
than twelve years of age to be educated for the Jewish ministry, and 
that when sufficient support shall have been secured suitable professors 
be engaged to teach the higher branches. It has been our privilege, 
under the blessing of Providence, to call into existence an institution 
that has now stood the test of time, and may fairly challenge compari- 
son with any educational establishment of the kind in the country. 

Education, the greatest boon which we can leave our children, is 
here diffused to rich and poor alike. Children can receive religious 
instruction combined with all branches of an English education, and 
learn besides other languages without being obliged to go to several 
schools, or to have several private teachers for all the various branches, 
which gives children but little time for recreation. The founders of 
our Society have, with much forethought, obtained a charter to enable 
us to establish a High School or College. The late Judah Touro en- 
dowed our Society munificently ; and shall we, the members of the He- 
brew Education Society, longer permit this want in our city, nay, in 
our whole country, to exist, of having no institution, no house of learn- 
ing, where our young men can be properly educated for the elevated 
position of teachers and ministers ? At no time in the history of our 
beloved country have our people enjoyed a greater degree of material 
prosperity than at present. Congregations, springing up in all parts 
of the land, are anxious to engage capable men for their guides and 
instructors ; but where is the college in the whole country that can of- 
fer the opportunity for our native young men to become there quali- 
fied for the position of expounding the law and giving instruction in 
the holy language ? 

No city is more centrally located for this purpose, nor is any So- 
ciety better prepared to fill this want than ours. Let us therefore, 
collectively and individually, put forth our energies to carry out to 
the full extent the object of our Society, which is not controlled by any 
particular congregation, but recognizes only the cause of religious and 



50 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

scientific education in its broadest sense. Let us enlist every well- 
wisher of Israel here and elsewhere in the erection of a temple of 
learning worthy of the American Israelites; and, with God's blessing, 
we will leave to posterity the richest legacy we can give them. Let 
meetings of alliXie Israelites of the city be called at an early day, and 
let us see how large a permanent fund can be made up, or what ways 
and means can be devised to carry the above suggestion into execution. 

Respectfully submitted, 
(Signed) I. Binswanger, 

Chairman Board of School Directors. 
Philadelphia, June 3, 1864. 



Treasurer's Report. 

Hebrew Education Society, in account with A. Hart, Treas- 
urer, OF Philadelphia. 

1864. Dr. 

June, To cash per orders Nos. 668 to 710 inclusive, as per 
vouchers herewith, to wit : 
For salaries and teachers one year .... |1,959 50 
For bills of books and stationery .... 243 72 

For cleaning rooms 135 00 

For bills of repairs to stoves, &c 65 69 

For salary for Assistant Secretary one year 50 00 

For bills of coal 1863 and 1864 253 60 

For bills of sundries 20 49 

For int. on mortgage on school house one 

year ()30 00 

For 5 per cent, commission for collecting 

11,328.71 to collector 66 43 

$3,424 43 

" To cash paid for |1,000 7 per cent. Lombard and South 
St. 7 per cent, mortgage bond purchased per 

order of the Board 900 00 

" " cash paid for ?i^l2,500 U. S. 10-40 loan at 5 per cent, 
interest per order of committee of Board of 
Managers 12,500 00 

$16,824 43 

June 5, To balance due A. Hart, Treasurer $!198 11 



HEBRE W ED UCA Tl ON SO CIET Y. 51 

1864. Cr. 
June 5, By cash received interest on stocks, loans, and mort- 
gage of the Society to date $1,285 80 

" " cash received for subscription of niemberH and for 

tuition of children, per Mr. A. Finzi, collector . 1,828 f52 
" " balance on hand May 17, 1863, as per account aud- 
ited that date 49 40 

" " donations received from the following gentleiiieu 

for 1868-64, to wit : (see below) 408 GO 

" donations for 1862-68 . 10 00 

" " cash received from congregation Mikve Israel(loan) 1,100 00 

" " " " mortgage paid in full 12,500 00 

" " balance due Treasurer for this amount overpaid by 
him this da3'^, as per account audited, with the 
vouchers, this date 198 11 



116,824 43 
E, & O. E. 

(Signed) A. Hart, Treasurer. 

Philadelphia, June 5, 1864. 

Examined and audited with the vouchers, this 5th day of June, 
1864, and also examined the certificates of stock and loans, and found 
them as follows : 

% 3,700 city 6 per cent. Gas Loan. 
12,500 U. S. 5 per cent. 10-40 loan. 

2,000 7 per cent. 5th & 6th St. Frankford Passenger Rail- 
way. 
2,000 7 per cent, bonds Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad. 
1,000 7 per cent, bonds Lombard and South Street Passen- 
ger Railway. 
400 in sixteen shares Mill Creek Railroad Company. 



^21,600 

Signed, Isaac Leeser, 

Edwin W. Arnold. 



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LIST OF DONATIONS. 



S. W. Arnold |20 00 

I. Binswanger . . . . 20 00 

C. Bloorningdale 20 00 

M. A. Dropsie 20 00 

Solomon GaDS 20 00 

A. Hart 20 00 

Gaus, Libermau & Co. ... 20 00 

M. Moyer 20 (lO 

Teller, Anathau & Co. . . 20 00 

A. S. Wolf 20 00 

M. Roaeubaeh 10 00 

Lewis Seidenbach 10 00 

Leou Berg JO 00 

Henry Mayer 10 00 

H. Guiterman 10 00 

Feustman & Kaufman . 10 00 

Blum, Rau & Co 10 00 

Steru, Jonas & Co 10 00 

L. & S.Hecht 10 00 

Michael Jacobs 10 00 

Isaac Rhine 5 00 

Potsdamer & Brother. . . 5 00 



Wolf & Brother 5 00 

Joseph L. Berg 5 00 

Newberger& Hochstadter 5 00 

H. Simpson 5 00 

Edwin W. Arnold 5 00 

Goldsmith & Brothers . . 5 00 

Hirsh & Brother 5 00 

A. Kahu 5 00 

S. Fernberger 5 00 

M. Seidenbach .^00 

T. Miudel 5 00 

Hirsh & Gerstley 5 00 

M. Silberman 5 00 

L. Walker 5 00 

Hezekiah VV. Arnold ... 5 00 

William B. Hackeuburg . . 5 00 

J. Cauffman & Son ... 4 00 

A. Mailert 3 00 

S. Vendig 3 00 

Stern »Sl Brother 3 00 



$403 00 



COLLECTED AFTER MAKING UP THE REPORT. 



D. C. Levy . . . 
Lazarus Mayer . 
Joseph Newhouse 
H. De Boer . . . 
Nathan Hays . . 
D. H. Soils . . . 
Goldsmith & Liebmaii 



?15 00 
10 00 
10 00 
5 00 
5 00 
5 00 
5 00 



Hyman Polock 5 00 

Frank Brothers & Co . . . 5 00 

C. Johnson 5 00 

A. Kauflfman 5 00 

A. Straus 2 00 

177 00 



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53 




Rev. Dr. M. J ASTRO W 

Vice President 1 867-1 S74 

Provost Maimonides College 

(Talmud, Jewish Literature and Hebrew Philosophy) 



54 



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On December 4, 1SG4, a meeting was lield in the National 
Guard's Hall, Race street below Sixth, under the auspices of 
the Hebrew Education Society and the presidents of the 
various congregations in the city, for the purpose of con- 
sidering the feasibility of establishing a Jewish Theological 

College. The 
call had been is- 
sued by a com- 
mittee appointed 
by the President 
of the Education 
Society, and con- 
sisted of Isidore 
B i n s w a n g e r , 
chairman, Moses 
A. Dropsie, Isaac 
Leeser, Charles 
Johnson and Sa- 
muel Hecht. No- 
thing of import- 
ance was done 
at this meeting. 
While this project 
was being agitat- 
ed, it was resolved 
to apply to the 
State Legislature 
for a supplement- 
ary act to the 
Act incorporating 
theSociet}', so that 
the pupils of the 
schools of the Education Society could be admitted to the 
High Schools of the city without previous attendance in 
the public schools. Governor Curtin signed the act on 
April 11, 186G. By this the schools of the Hebrew Edu- 
cation Society took rank with the best grammar schools in 




A. M. FRECHIE 

Secretary, lSti8— 1SG4 
Board of Ottioers, LSfio— 1866 
J876— 18S0 
" '• 1SS4— 1885 

Trustee Maimonitles College 



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55 




the city. This was a privi- 
lege possessed by no other 
private school in the First 
School District of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

It was decided to estab- 
lish the seminary under the 
joint auspices of the Hebrew 
Education Societ}^ and the 
Board of Delegates of Amer- 
ican Israelites. Abraham 
Hart, Moses A. Dropsie, Isi- 
dore Binswanger, Charles 
Bloomingdale, A. E. Mass- 
man, Levi Mayer, Henry 
Cohen, Solomon Gans, 
Simon W. Arnold, A. M. 
Frechie and Mayer Sulz- 
b e r g e r, of Philadelphia ; 

Mayer S. Isaacs, A. S. Saroni and Henry .losephi, of 

New York ; M. Umstadter of Nor- 
folk, Va., and Moses Friedenwald 

of St. Louis, were the Trustees of the 

first Jewish theological college in the 

United States. 

It was found necessary for the 

support of the college to create a 

permanent endowment fund, which 

afterwards became known as the 

" maintenance fund." It was upon 

this foundation that the college 

was established. Abraham Hart and 

Isidore Binswanger gave five hun- 
dred dollars each ; L. J. Leberman, 
two hundred and fifty dollars; Moses 

A. Dropsie, Morris Rosenbach, Lazarus Mayer, Charles 

Bloomingdale and Joseph Newhouse, two hundred dollars 



HENRY COHEX 
Trustee Maiiuonides CoUes 




JACOB LANGSDORF 
Charter Member 
Board of Officers, 1S4S— 1850 
" '• '• 1852—1855 



od 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



i««l 






/ 



HENRY SIMSON 
Charter Member 



111 the 
ma tics, 



cafi'iCLiluin 
astronoinv, 



each ; IJebecca Gratz, Bernard Abeles, Heligman Abeles and 
H. Marcus, one hundred dollars each. There were many 
other smaller subscriptions, and 
many agreed to giye a certain 
amount annually. The college was 
formally opened on Monday, October 
28, 1867. 

Maimonides College was the 

JSffil^ ^^^ name giyen to the institution. The 

■^^^^l/MgK^K^'- course of study was yery elaborate, 

' ^^^K ff ^ foi' it was the intention of the Trus- 

^ j^wm.^ I^ggg ^Q ground the pupils thoroughly 

in a knowledge of Jewish law and 
•*-'' traditions. The Greek, Latin, Ger- 

man, French, Hebrew and Chaldaic 
languages (and their literatures), were 
the natural sciences, history, mathe- 
moral and intellectual philoso])hy, 
constitutional history and the laws of the United States ; 
belles lettres, homiletics, comparatiye theology ; the Bible 
and its commentaries, the Mislnia and its commenta- 
ries, the Talmud and its commen- 
taries, Jewish history and literature, 
Jewish philosophy, Yad ha-chazakah, 
and Shulchan 'Aruch. 

Isaac Leeser, who had long ad- 
yocated the organization of a school 
of theology, became Proyost of the 
Maimonides College and President 
of its Faculty. Abraham Hart was 
President and Mayer Sulzberger, Esq., 
Secretary of the Board of Trustees. 
The college was truly fortunate in 
the selection of its faculty, and it 
may be stated with due confidence, 
that no Jewish educational institution in this country 
had (or has now) upon its roll of instructors such dis- 




LEON BERG 
Cliarter Meniljei 



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57 




MAYER STBRNBERGER 
Charter Member 



tinguislied names as those of Leeser, Morals and Jastrow. 
Isaac Leeser held the chair of English literature, logic and 
homlletlcs ; Dr. Sabato Morals, Biblical 
exegesis ; Dr. Marcus Jastrow, the Tal- 
mud, Jewish literature and Hebrew 
})hilosophv ; Dr. Aaron 8. Bettelhelm, 
Mishna, Yad ha-chazakaii and the 
Shulchan 'Aruch, (Dr. Bettelhelm re- 
signed in consequence of his appoint- 
ment as Rabbi in Richmond); L. 
Buttenwleser, Hebrew and Chaldalc 
languages and literatures; William 
! H. Williams (secretary to the Facul- 
j ty), Latin, matiiematlcs and geogra- 
phy. At a later date Rev. George 
Jacobs became instructor In English 
literature and allied subjects, and Hyman Polano in Hebrew 
and Mishna. Provision was made by which students of Mai- 
monides College were enabled to take certain courses in the 
University of Pennsylvania, for which the L^nlverity, with 
great generosity, charged but a nominal fee. 

On May 9, 1869, Moses A. Drop- 
sie, President of the Hebrew Education 
Society and of the jNIalmonides Col- 
lege, in his report to the Society, stated 
as follows : 

" Twenty years have elapsed since the 
formation of this Society, and during that 
period great difficiiities have beset it ; but 
the large number that have been educated 
at your school, and the character of your 
instruction, attest that your faithfulness and 
perseverance have overcome the threatened 
dangers. You were early convinced of the 
necessity of a higher mental training than 
tliat imparted in the school, where instruc- 
tion was given only in the primary branches of an English and Hebrew 
education ; and you felt that, in this republic, where man's powers of 




SIMON iSTERNBERGER 
Charter Member 



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mental development are unrestrained by political or social causes, 
where rapid strides are made in the world's progress, where institu- 
tions for the acquisition of knowledge are rapidly multiplying ; there 
should be established an institution of Jewish learning combined with 
all the knowledge that the higher educational institutions atibrd. 

" At the original formation of your Society, provision was made 
for the establishment of a college, when the proper means were procured. 

"After patiently 
waiting for years, 
the auspicious mo- 
ment arrived and 
Maimonides College 
was founded. 

" A year has 
passed since its for- 
mation; and I now 
propose to give some 
account of it. Pri- 
marily, it owes its 
existence to the Rev. 
Isaac Leeser, and 
none know better 
than you, his co- 
laborers in Jewish 
education, that for 
the advancement of 
Judaism he dedicated 
his existence. The 
establishment of this 
college was one of 
the cherished objects 
of his life ; and at 
length, when his in- 
cessant efforts were rewarded by its formation, death closed his labors 
ore he saw the fruition of his hopes. His death is an irreparal)le loss 
to the College. In honor of his memory, the Trustees have termed the 
iirst professorship of the Talmud, the Leeser Professorship. 

'' The Trustees in the administration of the College have experi- 
enced the difficulties which have beset many of the American colleges. 
They have not received the support and encouragement which the 




AARON LICHTEX 

Secretary, 1S74 — 1870 
Board of Officers, 1876—1889 



HEBIiEW EDUCATION SOCIETY 



59 



enterprise merits. Nearly all the means that have been contributed 
have been furnished by the Jews of Philadelphia. To place the Col- 
lege on a permanent foundation whereby it may successfully accom- 
plish its purpose, it is necessary that there be thoroughly organized ef- 
forts for its support. To this end appeals should be made to all who 
feel an interest in its success. Money is required not only to defray 
expenses neces- 
sarily incident to 
the College, but 
also for the pay- 
ni e u t of the 
board and lodg- 
ing of those stu- 
dents who are 
unable to do so. 
"Mr. Leaser 
bequeathed to 
the College his 
valuable library, 
a number of gen- 
erous donors 
have presented 
valuable books 
and the Trustees 
have purchased 
a few at the re- 
cent sales at 
Amsterdam. I 
presume that 
these now form 
the best collec- 
tion in the United 
States of works 
by Jewish auth- 
ors on the Bible, Jewish Religion, Philosophy, Science, Oriental 

Philology, Literature, etc. 

"Renewed efforts should be made for its increase ; many could con- 
tribute works of value that remain hidden or unusetl which if given to 
the Library would be productive of good. A building should be pur- 
chased for the exclusive use of the College, and therein proper provis- 




ABRAHAM ABLER 

Vice-President, 1S74— 1878 
President, 1878— till death in 1880 



60 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



ion could be made for an increased number of students. In this 
building the Library should be placed and properly supervised, and 
its exhibition might thus, by a kind of object teaching, demonstrate the 
necessity for its enlargement. 

" I have thus endeavored to state briefly an account of Maimonides 
College. The early history of many of the American institutions of 

learning is a his- 
tory of struggles, 
continued battles 
with adversity, 
till at length 
friends appeared 
and rescued them 
from peril. 

" Within a 
recent period 
noble hearted 
men have en- 
dowed American 
colleges with mu- 
nificent gifts, and 
have thus em- 
balmed their 
names in honor 
to be remembered 
by remote ages. 
How long shall 
Maimonides Col- 
1 e g e struggle ? 
surely our people, 
by the recollec- 
tion of the learn- 
ing and devotion 

Board of Officers, 1.876—1877 gf our ancestors, 

have sufficient incentive without these exjimplcs fo make this College a 
blessing and an ornament to American Judaism." 

That both College and School were organized on a broad 
and comprehensive plan, larger indeed than the circum- 
stances warranted, is perhaps sufficiently manifest from what 
has been noted above, but a further light is thrown upon this 




SIMON MUHR 
Treasurer, 1875— 1876 



HEBREW EDUCA TION SOCIETY. 



61 




A. E. MASSMAN 
Trustee Maimonides College 

"Although the school has 
not increased in numbers, I 
have yet the pleasing intelligence 
to report, that it has gained the 
reputation of heing if not super- 
ior, at least equal to any other 
Hebrew School in the country." 

It was on February 1, 1868, 
that Isaac Leeser died. He 
had come to Pliiladelphia in 
1829, when he succeeded the 
Rev. Abraham Israel Keys 
as minister of the Congre- 
gation Mickve Israel, and 
from that time to the close 
of his life he labored for the 
holy cause of education with 
a stout heart and ever-readv 



aspect of the subject by the 
following extracts: Jn his 
Annual Report, May 20, 
1855, the President stated: 

"In conclusion let me say, 
that however "difficult our task 
has been, the reflection that the 
school will eventually prove to 
be the most desirable institution 
for the education of Jewish 
youth in the United States, is suf- 
ficient compensation for all our 
labors, and therefore sincerely 
recommend to continue to per- 
severe in their good work." 

On June 5, 1859, the 
President said in his Annual 
Report : 




MOSES FRIEDENWALD 
Trustee Maimonides College 



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pen. He had scarcely exercised the duties of his office as 
Provost of Maimonides College when death called him away. 
Desiring that the society which he had founded should receive 
some profit from his work long after he had ceased to live, he 
bequeathed to the Hebrew Education Society the valuable lib- 
rary which he 
had gathered 
together with 
so much labor 
and patience. 
It contains his 
handappa rat , 
or the books 
and p a m - 
phlets he had 
used in the im- 
mediate pre- 
paration of his 
notable work. 
It is rich in 
Rabbinic and 
Biblical lit- 
erature and in 
the more mod- 
ern controver- 
sial writings.* 

* The value 
of this library as 
a storehouse of 
Jewish literature 
is attested by the 
extensive use 

made of it by various investigators of Jewish history and notably by 
the list ot books taken out of the Leeser Library for the purposes of the 
Jewish Historical Society, reported at the annual meeting of the Hebrew 
Education Society in 1895, and which we here note in full, as follows : 

1. Brackeuridge, H. M. — Speeches on the Jew Bill. 

2. Carillon, Rev. B. C— Sermon delivered at the Spanish and Portu- 

guese Synagogue in aid of the Beth Limmud Society. 

3. Cohen, Solomon Jacob — Elements of the Jewish Faith. 




Dr. CYRUS ADLER 

Teacher in Hebrew School 

Librarian, 1S81— 1894 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 63 

The Leeser Library was catalogued by Dr. Cyrus Adler in 
1883, when he was librarian to the Education Society.* As 

4. Cresson, Warder — The Good Olive Tree of Israel. 

5. Jerusalem. 

6. The Great Restoration aud Cousolldation of Israel iu Palestiue. 

7. De la Motta, Jacob, M. D. — Discourses. 

8. De Sola, Abraham — The Sauitary lustitutions of the Hebrews. 

9. Biography of David Aaron De Sola. 

10. Valedictory Address. 

11. Ish Tsadik. 

12. Dropsie, Moses A. — Discourse delivered at the Synagogue Rodeph 

Shalom. 

13. Dropsie, Moses A. — Panegyric on Isaac Leeser. 

14. Jacobs, Rev. Solomon — A Theological Refutation of "An Affection- 

ate Address to the Jews of Jamaica." 

15. Dedication of New Synagogue Beth-El-Emeth. 

16. Jacobs, William— The Jew's Reasons for Believing iu One God only. 

17. Hymns written for the use of Hebrew Congregations. 

18. Loeb, Dr. Henri— The Road to Faith. 

19. Menasseh Ben Israel — De Resurrectione Mortuorum. 

20. Mickve Israel — Hoc est Spes Israelis. 

21. Nathan, Rev. M. N. — A Sermon. 

22. A defense of the Ancient Rabbinical Interpretation of Deut. 

XXIII, 3. 

23. Newman, Selig — The Challenge Accepted. 

24. Remarks of John McMahon in the House of Delegates of Maryland. 

25. Persecution of Jews in the East, containing the proceedings of a 

meeting held at the synagogue Mickve Israel. 

26. Peixotto, Daniel L. M., M. D. — A Discourse. 

27. The Jew; being a Defence of Judaism. 

28. Bikkure Hajam— The First Fruits of the West. 

29. The Jewish Chronicle, edited by John Lillie. 

30. Sinai, Eiu Organ fiir Erkentness und Veredlung des Judenthums. 

31. Moreh — The Guide, edited by Raphael D. C. Lewin. 

32. Der Israelitsche Volksfreund, edited by C. M. Cohen. 

33. Raphall, M. J. — Judaism Defended against the Attacks of T. J. C, 

of Oxford. 

34. The Constancy of Israel. 

35. The Path of Immortality. 

.36. The Bible View of Slavery. (Raphall.) 

37. Salomon, Dr. G. — Twelve Sermons delivered in Hamburg. 

38. Salomon, Rev. Dr. Louis — The Mosaic System. 

39. Seixas, J. — A Manual of Hebrew Grammar. 

40. Yisachar ben Yitschack — Jerusalem, oder Ueber den Zweck der 

Mosaischen Gesetzgebung. 

* Catalogue of the Leeser Library, compiled by Cyrus Adler, A. B., 
Philadelphia, 1883 ; 12 mo., pp. 165. 



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ISAAC HYNEMAN 
Board of Officers, 1850—1853 



a tribute of respect to the memory of Isaac Leeser, the first 
professorship of the Tahnud in Maimonides College was called 

the " Leeser Professorship." A 
panegyric on his life and character 
was pronounced by Moses A. Drop- 
sie, Esq., before the Hebrew Educa- 
tion Society on February 19, 
1868.* Dr. Marcus Jastrow suc- 
ceeded Isaac Leeser as Provost of 
the college. 

As a desirable addition to the 
history of this noble-hearted enter- 
prise and as recording the thorough- 
ness with which it was planned and 
organized, we here subjoin a full ci- 
tation of the rules and regulations 
for the government of Maimonides College : 

The Faculty of Arts is composed of the following Professorships: 
A Professorship of Horailetics, Belles Lettres and Comparative 

Theology. 
A Professorship of the Bible and Biblical 

Literature. 
A Professorship of Talmud, Hebrew Phil- 
osophy, Jewish History and Literature. 
A Professorshipof Mishnah with Commen- 
taries, Shuchau Aruch and Yad ha- 
Chazakah. 
A Professorship of Hebrew and Chaldaic 

Languages. 
A Professorship of Greek and Latin 

Languages. 
A Professorship of Khetoric and English 

Literature. 
A Professorship of Mathematics. 
A Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 

* Panegyric on the Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Isaac 
Leeser, pronounced by Moses A. Dropsie before the Hebrew Education 
Society of Philadelphia, on February 19, 1868, (5628), 12 mo., Philadel- 
phia, 1868. 




MARTIN SEIDENBACH 
Charter Member 



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65 



A Professorship of German and French Languages. 

OF TIIK FACULTY. 

1. The Professors shall constitute "The Faculty of Arts," to 
whom, as a body, shall be committed the immediate regulation and 
government of the Collegiate Department, subject to the rules and 
statutes and the 

control of the 
Board of Trus- 
tees. 

2. The Col- 
. lege shall be un- 
der the supervis- 
ion of the Pro- 
vost, who shall 
make report in 
relation to it to 
the Board at least 
once a year. 

3. Stated 
meetings of the 
Faculty shall be 
held every month, 
for the purpose of 
administering the 
general discipline 
of the College ; 
and special meet- 
ings, as often as 
the business of the 
institution may re- 
quire, to be called 
by the Provost or 
a majority of the 
members. At all meetings of the Faculty, the Provost shall preside, 
or in his absence a chairman can be elected. 

4. The Faculty shall appoint a Secretary from its own body 
whose duty it shall be to keep the minutes of their proceedings, 
which shall be, at all times, open to the inspection of the Trustees. 

5. No proceedings of the Faculty shall be considered as valid. 




ISAAC ROSSKAM 

Board of Officers, 1876—1878 Board of Officers, 1889—1891 

Vice-President, 1878—1880 Vice-President, 1891—1895 

President, 1880—1889 President, 1895—1898 

Life Member of Board. 



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unless passed by a majority of the members at a meeting formally 
constituted. 

6. It shall be the duty of the Faculty to make reports to the 
Board at their stated meetings, upon the state of the Collegiate de- 
partment, stating particularly the names and residences of such stu- 
dents as have 
been admitted 
into, or have left 
the institution 
since the last re- 
port, with such 
remarks as they 
may deem ex- 
pedient. 

7. It shall 
be the special 
duty of the Pi*o- 
vost, to visit and 
superintend the 
various depart- 
ments ; to see 
that the rules 
and statutes are 
duly carried into 
effect, to report 
to the Board 
every instance of 
refusal and ne- 
glect to comply 
with such rules 
and statutes, and 
to advise a n d 
suggest such al- 
terations and improvements as he may deem best calculated to promote 
the welfare and usefulness of the institution. 




SIMON B. FLEISHER 

Treasurer, 187G— 1883 

Board of Officers, 1883— 18S8 



OF THE CLASSES. 

1. The students shall be distributed into five classes. 

2. No applicant sliall be admitted into the Freshman class under 
the age of 14; any special exception shall be decided by the Board, 



HUB HEW EDUCATIOX SOCIETY. 



6; 



MORRIS KOHN 
Board of Officers, 1876—18 



upon the application of the Faculty. His fitness must appear on ex- 
amination, to be conducted by the Professors. Avho must concur in 

opinion that he is qualified in such branches 
as shall be prescribed by the Board. 

The requisites for entering the Fresh- 
man class shall be as follows : 

Latix — Ci^sar, Virgil, Sallust, Odes of 
Horace. 
. _ English — The elements of English 

^^^^^ I grammar and of modern Geography. 

^^^^f i^^ / Hebrew — The translation of the his- 

^^^^^P^K/ ^B' / torical portions of the Bible with facility. 

^^^^f ^r^f / I Arithmetic, including fractions and 

^^r r X I extraction of roots. 

4. The Faculty shall keep a book 
called the Matriculation book, in which every 
candidate for entrance into this College shall, 
on his admission, have his name, age and residence entered, and the 
name and residence of his parent or guardian. 

5. Xo student shall be admitted to advanced standing, without 
being as fully instructed as the class to which admission is asked, in 
all the studies in which the class has been instructed. 

6. Vacation shall be from the 10th 
of July to the 31st of August. 

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 

1. The subjects of instruction in the 
institution shall be the following: — 

Greek, Latin, German, French, He- 
brew, Chaldaic and their literatures, the 
Natural Sciences, History, Mathematics, 
aud Astronomy, Moral and Intellectual 
Philosophy, Constitutional History and 
Laws of the United States, Belles Lettres, 
Homiletics, Comparative Theology, the 
Bible with its commentaries, the Mishnah 
with its commentaries, the Shulchan 
'Aruch, Yad ha-chazakah, Jewish His- 
tory and Literature, Hebrew Philosopliy aud the Talrtiud with its 
ooniraentaries. 




DAVID 80LIS COHEN 
Board of Officers, 1877—1878 



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EDWIN ARNOLD 
Board of Officers, 1876—1877 



2. At the close of each yearly term there shall be held an ex- 
amiiiatiou of all the classes in the presence of a Committee of the 

Board, and of such other Trustees as shall 
attend ; after every examination the stu- 
dents who are distinguished in each class 
shall be arranged in the order of merit. 

3. No student shall be suffered to 
proceed to a higher class who shall not, 
on examination, show himself master of 
the studies of the preceding year, but he 
may be allowed the privilege, (if the fac- 
ulty shall judge it expedient to grant it,) 
of a second examination for admission 
thereto, at the opening of the next suc- 
ceeding year. 

4. Punishment shall lie exclusively 
directed to a sense of duty, and the prin- 
ciples of honor and shame, and shall con- 
sist of private admonition by a Professor — admonition in the presence 
of the Faculty — admonition in the presence of the Faculty and of the 
class of the offender — removal to a lower class — suspension for a limited 
time from college — dismissal — expulsion. 

5. No punishment except private ad- 
monition shall be inflicted, unless ordered 
by a resolution of a majority of the whole of 
the Faculty ; nor shall the punishment of 
expulsion be inflicted unless it be first 
sanctioned by a vote of the Trustees. In 
case of dismissal, the offender may be re-ad- 
mitted, but the effect of expulsion shall be 
an utter disqualification of the individual 
for re-admission into this institution, or of 
receiving any of its honors. 

6. The fees for tuition of each year 
shall be one hundred dollars, payable at 
the commencemeut thereof; and no student 
shall be considered as entitled to his seat 
in the class for the term, until such pay- 
ment is made. Notice that the tuition money is due, and that the 
Treasurer will at times attend (the time then to be stated) shall be 
given by the Secretary. 




JACOB MILLER 
Board of Officer?, 1877—1878 



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69 



7. The Board sanction the institution of a Literary Society, to 
consist of the students and alumui of the college, or such of them as 
shall be admitted members thereof, when suitable rooms can be ap- 
propriated for their use. The said society to be under the general 
control and supervision of the Faculty. 

OF COMMENCEMENTS AND CONFERRING DEGREES IN THE ARTS. 

1. There 
shall be an an- 
n u a 1 commence- 
ment of graduates 

. in the arts on the 
last Thursday 
morning of each 
term, at 10 o'clock. 

2. Candi- 
dates for the de- 
gree of Bachelor 
in the Arts or Di- 
vinity shall be 
publically exam- 
ined by the Fac- 
ulty in the col- 
legiate depart- 
ments, in the pres- 
ence of the Com- 
mittee of Examin - 
ation and such 
other members of 
the Board of Trus- 
tees as may attend. 

3. The Pro- 
vost shall report 
the names of those 
who shall have been found worthy of receiving such degree to the 
Board who shall, if the report be approved, confer such degree accord- 
ingly. But no degree shall be conferred unless by the vote of the 
Trustees ; and every student, before he can be recommended for the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts or Divinity, shall settle his account with 
the Treasurer. 




DAVID SULZBERGER 

Secretary, 1876 



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4. The Degree of Master of Arts may be conferred ou the 
Alumni of the College, who shall have been Bachelor in the Arts of 

three years standing, and shall apply for 
that honor. 

5. The order of the commencement 
shall be directed by the Faculty. 

At no time during the history of 
the college did a great number of 
students matriculate, and few grad- 
uated and received their degrees. 
Among those who were trained .for 
the Jewish ministry were Mr. Marcus 
Eliezer Lam, now a teacher in the 
Hebrew School of the Education So- 
ciety at Touro Hall ; Rev. David 
Levy, now of New Haven, Conn., 

and the Rev. Dr. Samuel Mendelsohn, at present minister of 

the .Jewish synagogue of Wilmington, N. C. 




CHARLES J. COHEN 
Board of Officers, 1S77— 1880 



Year after year the reports of the President and Treas- 
urer gave evidence that the public never thoroughly favored 
or appreciated the work of the Societ}^, and that its manage- 
ment was not conducted on a busi- 
ness basis. The fund which had 
been left to the Society by Judah 
Touro was constantly decreasing, yet 
we notice that teachers were con- 
tinually asking for additional pay, 
and in most instances the increase 
was granted. 

At a meeting of the Board held 
June 21, 1868, on motion of Mr. 
Abraham S. Wolf it was carried, 
" that the Board send a letter to Mrs. 
A. Hart, Mrs. Levi Mayer, Mrs. G. 
Silberberg, Mrs. I. Binswanger and 




JACOB LOEB 
Board of Officers, 187' 



1SS2 



Mrs. A. E. Massman, requesting them to take the initiatory 



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71 



steps towards calling a meeting of ladies, for the purpose of 
holding a Fair for the benefit of the Hebrew Education So- 
ciety; and on motion of Dr. Jastrow that the communication 
be placed in the hands of a committee of three to call upon 
the ladies mentioned, was also agreed to." Drs. Jastrow, and 
Bettelheim and Mr. rTeiiV)ron wore np-ointod (l:o oonmiiltco. 
Mrs. Abraham 
Hart declined 
to serve, and 
Mrs. Henry 
Cohen's name 
was s u b s t i- 
tuted. 

At a sub- 
sequent meet- 
ing a motion 
of Dr. Jastrow 
w a s adopted 
"that a com- 
mittee be ap- 
pointed to con- 
fer with the 
Board of Di- 
rectors of the 
Jewish H o s- 
pital relative 
to coming to 
some definite 
understanding 
about the pro- 
posed 'Fair,' 
and that they 
have full power to act." 

The President appointed on the committee Messrs. A. 
Hart, I. Binswangcr and Jos. Heilbron. 

At the next meeting of the Board of Managers, " Mr. A. 
Hart made a verbal report on Fair, stating that the commit- 




ISAAC SALLER 

Board of Officers, 1877—1881 

Vice-President, 1881—1886 

Board of Officers, 188()- " 



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Board of Officers. 187S— ISStj 



tee from the Hebrew Education vSociety liad met a similar 
committee from the Jewish Hospital Association and the lat- 
ter declined to act in conjunction with us as they deemed it 

inexpedient at the present time, the}' 
having other methods of raising 
money." 

The holding of the " Fair" was 
therefore abandoned. 

At the Board meeting of Decem- 
ber 18, 1870, tlie following offered by 
Mr. ]\T. Sulzberger was adopted : ''Re- 
solved — that some proper person be 
requested by the President to deliver 
a paid lecture at some time that may 
be agreeable to him, before the Israel- 
ites of Philadelphia, on the subject of 
Hebrew Education." 
At the meeting held March 19, 1871, the President re- 
ported that in accordance with the resolution of the Board, 
adopted at its last meeting, he had requested the Rev. Dr. 
Jastrow to deliver a lecture upon the subject of Hebrew edu- 
cation, in aid of this Society, but that gentleman having re- 
fused, he (the President) then conferred 
with Mr. S. Wolf, of Washington, mak- 
ing a similar request of him, to which 
he at once consented, but a previous 
engagement to give an unpaid lecture 
in the German Synagogue prevented 
an arrangement satisfactory to all. 

At a special meeting of the Board 
of Managers, held October 6, 1872, the 
Treasurer made a verbal report show- 
ing a very melanctioly state of the fi- 
nances of the Society, and expressing 
the belief that under the present cir- 
cumstances the school could not con- 
tinue to exist much longer. 




HENRY C. DALSEMER 
Board of Officers, ISStV- 1^^2 



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The following resolution offered by Mr. Mayer Sulzberger 
was adopted and referred to the Committee on the re-estab- 
lishment of the School : " Resolved — That a committee of 

be appointed to confer with the Congregations Mickve 

Israel and Beth-El Emeth, with a view to transfer to the said 
Congregations the building and furniture of this Society, un- 
der an express 
agreement and 
condition that 
certain ar- 
rang e m e n t s 
for teaching 
the Hebrew 
language and 
its literature 
shall be for- 
ever kept up 
in such man- 
ner and under 
such restric- 
tions as may 
be determined 
on." 

Y a r i ous 
resolutions in 
this direction 
were adopted 
at most of the 
meetings of 
the Society 
and Board, but 
no definite ac- 
tion was taken until December, 1873, when the work of Mai- 
monides College was discontinued, after an activity extending 
through six years. The organization as such remained in ex- 
istence, and at the annual meeting, held May 17, 1874, 
the Trustees elected were : B. J. Hart, A. M. Frechie, 




LOUIS GERSTLEY 
Assistant Kpcretary, 1877 
Board of Officers, 1878— ISSl 
1891 



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Solomon Gans, Simon W. Arnold, Mayer S. Isaacs, A. S. 
Solomons, Mj-er Stein. 

The expenses necessary to maintain the college were 
paid by the generous contributions of citizens of Philadel- 
phia, in spite of the fact tliat it was a national institution 

open to the 
reception of 
students from 
all parts of the 
country. The 
contributions of 
money, which 
citizens of New 
York seemed so 
eager to sub- 
scribe to the col- 
lege when its ob- 
jects were first 
set forth, were 
not forthcom- 
ing. Lack of 
financial aid 
from other cities 
and a want of 
interest in the 
undert a king, 
led to its dis- 
co n t i n u a n ce. 
The J e w i s h 
Theological 
Seminary in 
New York is in 

a measure the successor of Maimonides College. It was insti- 
tuted in 1886, chiefly through the efforts of Dr. Morais. 

The growth of the educational movement, which has 
become so marked within recent years and which has mani- 




MICHAEL M. ALLEN 

Board, 1853—1854 

Secretary, 1854— )857 

Board of Otficers, 1858—1863 

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75 



fested itself especially in the domain of Jewish history and 
literature, may very justly be regarded as indicating the pos- 
sibility of re-establishing Maimonides College on the lines 
planned for it by its projectors, and on a basis that would 
afford the institution that security and permanence which 
earlier conditions appear to liave precluded. In such event 
the valuable 
franchise 
which the 
Hebrew Ed- 
ucation So- 
ciety posses- 
s e s in its 
charter could 
be adec[uate- 
ly utilized, 
and the edu- 
cational sys- 
tem of the 
Society be 
thereby made 
complete. 
Thus the la- 
bors of Isaac 
Leeser, the 
self-devotion 
of S a b a t o 
Morals, the 
philanthropy 
o f .J u d a h 
Touro would 
b e brought 

to fruition, and the hopes and aspirations of their earnest- 
hearted coadjutors be ultimately realized. 

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hebrew Education 
Society was celebrated on Saturday evening, April 1, 1876, at 
Concordia Hall, on Callowhill street below Fifth street. Rev. 




MOYER FLEISHER 

Board of Officers, ISSS— 1892 

President, 1892— ISy.i 



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r.. J. LEBERMAX 
Board ol' Officers, 1852 — ISoO 



S. Morals opened the ceremony with a prayer, and Moses A. 
Dropsie, Esq., Dr. Marcus Jastrow and the Rev. George Jacobs 

delivered addresses. The main por- 
tion of the programme consisted of 
songs and recitations by the chil- 
dren then attending the schools of 
the Society. 

In the Fall of 1876, the Con- 
gregation Rodef Shalom was accord- 
ed the use of the Education Society's 
school house on 7th street near 
Wood, for the requirements of its 
congregational school, which was 
there continued until removed in 
1879 to the school house of the 
Congregation on North 8th street. 
The Society has been drawn into competition with two 
great educational systems, namely, as to the English branches, 
the public schools ; and in Hebrew studies, with the con- 
gregational schools, and it proceeded at once to meet these 
altered conditions. A Hebrew 
school was opened on March 3, 1878, 
in the committee-room of the Con- 
gregation Bene Israel (Children of 
Israel), on Fifth street above Cath- 
erine street. A third school (the 
teaching of Hebrew still continued 
in the school house on Seventh street) 
was opened on October 12, 1879. at 
the northwest corner of Marshall 
street and Girard avenue. At this 
time Isidore Binswanger was Presi- 
dent of the Hebrew Education So- 
ciety, having succeeded Moses A. 
Dropsie in 1870, who had declined 
a re-election after having served continuously for eight years. 
In 1878, Isidore Binswanger, who had been a most active 



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Board of Officers, 1850—18.52 
1853—1860 



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Board of Officers, 1880— 1SS7 



President at that time became 
president. In 1876 Abraham 
Hart, who had served as treas- 
urer for twenty-seven years, 
ever since the Society was or- 
ganized, resigned. His term of 
uninterrupted service in any 
one office, has been longest in 
the annals of the Societ3^ 

At the annual meeting, 
held March 14, 1880, D. Sulz- 
berger, Simon A. Stern and 
Charles J. Cohen were ap- 
pointed a committee to revise 
the By-Laws. This commit- 
tee reported at the annual 
meeting, March 13, 1881, 



worker for over twenty-seven 
years, also declined a re-elec- 
tion. Both he and Mr. Drop- 
sie, by virtue of their office of 
President of the Hebrew Ed- 
ucation Society, served as 
President of Maimonides Col- 
lege. 

In 1878, Abraham Adler, 
a staunch supporter of the 
Society for many years, was 
elected to the presidency, but 
he died on November 9, 1879, 
during his term of office. Mr. 
Isaac Rosskam, who had been 
a manager of the Society for 
over two years, and its Vice- 




ABRAHAM FINZI 
Assistant Secretary, 1851-1868 



78 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

and the following was adopted with the exceptions noted 



OF MEMBERS. 



Section 1. 



Any Israelite, aged at least twenty-one years, 

may become a 
Member of the 
Society upon 
the payment 
of the annual 
dues pre- 
scribed in 
these By-Laws 
for Members, 
Patrons a n d 
Friends. 

Sec. 2. 
T h e annual 
dues of Mem- 
bers shall be 
five dollars ; 
Patrons , 
t w e n ty-five 
dollars, a n d 
Friends, one 
hundred dol- 
lars. 

* Se c. 3. 
Any Member 
paying into 
the funds of 
the Associa- 
tion two hundred and fifty dollars, shall be declared a Life 
Member, and be subject to no further dues. 

Sec. If. A Member one year or more in arrears shall 
neither vote nor hold office, unless exonerated from his dues 
by the Board of Managers. 

* Additions subsequently made. 




LEVI MAYER 

Board of Officers. 1874— 18S3 

Treasurer, 1SS.3— 1891 

Trustee Maimonides College 



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79 




JACOB SULZBERGER 
Board of Officers, 1S81— 1SS4 



Sec. 5. A Member more than two years in arrears may 
be dropped from the roll by a vote of the Board. 

* Sec. 6. No person shall become 
a Member, nor exercise any of the 
privileges of membership who shall 
not have }>aid one year's dues, and not 
until after the adjournment of the 
meeting at which the applicant for 
membership shall have been proposed 
therefor. 

OF OFFICERS. 

Section 1. The ofhcers of this So- 
ciety shall be a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Treasurer, Secretary and fifteen 
Managers, four of whom may be 
females, who, together, shall constitute 

the Board of Officers, and who shall also be Trustees of the 

College. At the first election, one-third of the Managers shall 

be chosen for one year, one-third for two years, and the 

remaining third three years, and at 

every subsequent election they shall 

be chosen for three years. *" Any one 

who shall have served for ten or more 

years as President, Vice-President, 

Treasurer or Honorary Secretary, or 

shall have served as a member of tlie 

Board of Officers for a period of not less 

than fifteen years, may be elected by 

the Society at its annual meeting, as 

an Honorary Member of the Board of 

Officers, for life, and be entitled to all 
"the rights and privileges of any other 

memder of the Board." 

The President, Vice-President, 

Treasurer and Secretary shall hold their respective offices for 




JACOB MUHR 
Board of Officers, ISSl- 



* Additions subsequently made. 



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HENRY MITCHELL 

Board of Ofticers, 1SS()— ISSi 



one year, or until their successors shall have been chosen. 
Sec. 2. Elections shall be held at the annual meetings 
of the Society. 

Sec. S. The President shall pre- 
side at all meetings of the Society and 
Board of Officers, and shall draw 
orders on the Treasurer for the amounts 
passed by the Board of Officers ; shall, 
whenever he may deem it necessary, 
convene special meetings of the Society 
or Board of Officers, and shall appoint 
all committees, unless otherwise or- 
dered by the Society. He shall have 
the right to draw an order on the 
Treasurer for any sum not exceeding 
twenty-five dollars, without an ap- 
propriation by the Board. He shall be custodian of the seal 
of the Society, and shall, at the expiration of his term of 
office, deliver to his successor the said seal and all other prop- 
erty of the Society that may be in his possession. 

Sec. 4- The Vice-President 
shall, in the absence of the President 
succeed to all his rights and duties. 
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall 
take charge of all moneys and secur- 
ities of the Society, shall pay all 
orders dul}' signed by the President, 
or acting President, shall keep an 
account of his receipts and disburse- 
ments, and furnish a statement of 
the same at the annual meeting of 
the Societ}', and shall report at 
every stated meeting of the Board 
the amount of the balance in his 
hands. He shall give such security 
for the faithful performance of his duties as shall be approved 
of by the Board, and within two weeks after the election of 




MARK SCHWARTZ 

Board of OfHcers, 1886—1889 



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81 




WILLIAM GERSTLEY 
Board of Officers, 1881—1885 
1895—1898 



liis successor, he shall deliver to the latter all moneys, papers, 
accounts and all other property whatsoever belonging to the 

Societ}'. 

Sec. 6. The Secretary shall keep 
fair and correct minutes of all trans- 
actions of the Society or Board of 
Ofticers, countersign all orders drawn 
by the President, shall prepare notices 
for all meetings, shall keep the ac- 
counts with the members of the 
Society, shall prepare all bills, and 
shall perform all duties incident to 
the office ; for which service he shall 
receive such compensation as may be 
fixed by the Board of Officers. 

Sec. 7. The Board of Officers 
shall fill all vacancies occurring 
among their own number, shall elect the School Teachers, 
shall employ an Assistant^Secretary, Librarian, Messenger 
and Collector, and compensate them, shall determine the 
branches of education to be taught in the Schools, and shall 
do all things necessary for their government and maintenance. 

Sec. 8. The seat of any member of 
the Board of Officers wlio shall absent 
himself from three consecutive stated 
meetings, without satisfactory excuse, 
may be declared vacant. 

Sec. 9. All elections for officers or 
members of the Society shall be by 
ballot. 

OF MEETINGS. 

Section 1. The annual meeting of 
the Society shall be held on the second 
Sunday in March. levi goldsmith 

m n 1 ini ■ il^ Board of Officers, 1879-1882 

ihe fiscal year shall l)egin on the 
first of March. 




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Sec. 2. The Board of Officers shall meet on the secoiul 

Sunday in each month. 

Sec. 3. Special meetings of the 

fSociety or Board of Officers may be 

called by the President whenever he 

may deem it necessary, and it shall be 

his duty to call such special meetings 

of the Society when recjuested by ten 

members thereof, and of the Board of 

Officers when requested by three of its 

members. 

Sec. 4- At the meetings of the 

Society, fifteen shall constitute a 

quorum ; of the Board, five. 

JACOB WOLF OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. 

Board of Officers, 1881 

Section 1. In the schools there shall be imparted relig- 
ious instruction, Biblical History and the Hebrew language. 

Sec. 2. The Board of Officers shall make all regulations 
governing the admission of pupils to the Schools, and also 
all rules in regard to the governing and management of the 
Schools. 

Sec. 3. No pupil shall be ad- 
mitted into the School without a 
written order from one of the mem- 
bers of the Board of Officers. 

LEGACIES AND INVESTMENTS. 

Section 1. All legacies to the 
Society shall be invested, and called 
by the name of the legatee. All 
funds received as legacies, or from 
life memberships, to remain intact 
forever, the interest only to be ap- 
plied for educational purposes. 

Sec. 2.. No money of the Society shall be invested in any 
other than City of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, or 




LOUIS E. LEVY 
Board of Officers, 1882- 



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83 



United States securities, or first mortgages on property in the 
city of Philadelphia not owned by the Society. 



RULES OF ORDER. 

Section 1. At all meetings the 
order of business shall be as follows: 

(1) Roll-call. 

(2) Reading of the minutes of the 
previous meeting. 

(3) Reports of Officers. 

(4) Communications. 

(5) Election of Officers or Mem- 
bers. 

(6) Deferred business. 

(7) New business. 

Sec. 3. The veas and nays shall 




EDWARD L. ROTHSCHILD 
Board of Officers, 1884—1889 



be entered on the minutes when requested by two members. 

OF AMENDMENTS. 

Section 1. No alteration, amendment oraddition to these 
By-Laws shall be made, unless pro- 
posed at one meeting of the Society 
or Board of Officers, and confirmed at 
the next meeting of the Societ}' by a 
vote of two-thirds of the members 
present, the Secretary having sent 
proper notice of such amendment to 
all the members ; Provided, however, 
That the Article on Legacies and In- 
vestments shall not be altered or re- 
pealed, except by the vote of two- 
thirds of the members present at such 
meeting ; and, furthermore, that the 
quorum necessary for the entertain- 
ing of such alterations shall be three- 
fourths of the entire membership of the Society 




LOUIS ESCHNER 
Board of Officers, 1885—1896 



84 



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JACOB MAYER 
Board of Officers, 1855— 1863 



FORM OF BEQUEST. 

I give and bequeath to the Hebrew Education Society of 
Philadelphia. 

The fringe of Jewish population 
along the northeastern boundary of the 
city continued to grow, and a colony 
of Russian immigrants existed there 
with all the customs, observances and 
habits of the mother country. The 
Education Society opened a school on 
December 28, 1879, at 624 Wayne 
street, in that part of the city known 
as " Port Richmond." The school in 
the B'nai Israel Synagogue was re- 
moved to 417 Pine street, and another 

was opened at Fourth and Poplar streets. The educa- 
tional advantages that were offered were quickly taken 

advantage of, and so many attended these schools that they 

soon became overcrowded, and larger quarters had to be 

provided. 

Although many Israelites had 

settled at Port Richmond about the 

year 1876, the " great exodus" was 

yet to come. The persecution of 

the Jews in Russia caused thousands 

to shake the dust from off their feet 

and seek a land where they could 

worship their God as their conscience 

dictated. The first great wave of 

Russian immigration reached our 

shores in 1882, and the influx has 

continued ever since. 

The school at No. 624 Wayne 

street. Port Richmond, was soon 

found to be too small to meet the demands of the growing 

population. The properties, Nos. 2856-58 Lark street, a 




JACOB BAMBERGER 



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85 




Rev. Dr. SABATO MORAIS 

Board of Officers, 1 861-1874 
Professor Maimonides College 

(Biblical Exegesis) 



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M, A. MITCHELL 
Board of Officers, 1854—186.3 
1865—1867 
" " •' 1869—1871 



stone's throw from the Wayne Street School, were secured and 
entirely remodeled for the use of the Society. The buildings 

were dedicated on Sunday afternoon, 
September 16, 1883. The list of 
those who contributed towards pay- 
ing for the Industrial School on Lark 
street, will be found in the appen- 
dix. Even these buildings were 
found inadequate to meet the de- 
mands made upon them, and the 
adjoining property, No. 2854 Lark 
street, was therefore purchased. 

The first industrial school of 
the Society was opened in October, 
1880, on Wayne street. At first it 
was a school for girls only. Mrs. 
Simeon Newhouse was the first 
superintendent, and she was succeeded in 1881 by Miss Rose 
Kaufman, and the year following by Mrs. Eva Coons. In 
1883 a complete system of industrial education was inaugu- 
rated. The most approved method 
of cigar-making was taught to the 
men, and joinery, wood-turning and 
general carpentering were soon ad- 
ded to the course. The department 
of cigar-manufacturing was opened 
at the suggestion of Mr. A. M. 
Frechie, who devoted much time 
and attention to it. The progress 
made by the pupils was rapid. The 
trade-school was soon turning out 
youths, well equipped in the handi- 
craft they had chosen as a means of 
livelihood. 

In 1886 an industrial school 
was opened in the Seventh street building, and the course 
in manual training was extended by the addition of iron-filing. 




SOLOMON TELLER 
Board of Officers, 1856—1859 
" " " 1860—1867 



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JUDAH TOURO 



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89 




A. MAILERT 
Coaid of Officers, 1864—1867 



chipping, frame making and garment cutting. Thirty boys 
received instruction in the cigar factory this year (1886). Of 
these, twenty-five obtained employment 
at satisfactoiy wages. 

The teaching of Hebrew still contin- 
ued. The President of the Society, Mr. 
Isaac Rosskam, reported that " more chil- 
dren are now being taught the Hebrew 
language in this city, or are engaged in 
the study of Hebrew, than ever before." 

In 1888 the attendance at the manu- 
al training department of the Lark Street 
School averaged 22 ; at the school of the 
same description (technical) at Seventh 
and Wood streets, 168 pupils were admit- 
ted, of which number 132 resided south 
of Spruce street ; 102 were in the cigar department, 56 were 
being taught garment cutting, and 10 received instruction in 
carpentry. 

The " Young Women's Union, a branch of the Hebrew 
Education Society," was projected at a meeting held on Febru- 
ary 5, 1885. Its main purpose was the 
education of the poor children of Russian 
parentage, then so thickly congregated in 
the southern portion of our city. The 
Young Women's Union is, also, a pro- 
duct of the great exodus of 1882. It 
was organized in 1885, chiefly through 
the efforts of a small number of young 
women who appreciated the field of labor 
thus opened to them. The first officers of 
the Union were: Miss Fanny Binswanger 
(who first projected the formation of such 
a society), president ; Miss Tinie Feust- 
man, vice-president ; Miss Amelia J. 
Allen, treasurer; Miss Martha Goldstein, corresponding sec- 
retary ; Miss Clara Ostheim, recording secretary. The Young 




DR. JUDAH ISAACS 
Board of Officers, 1S67— 1876 



90 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 

Women's Union ceased to be a branch of the Hebrew Educa- 
tion Society in 1897, when it received a charter from the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as an independent organi- 
zation. 

The status of the Society at this stage (1890), is graphic- 
ally presented in the following report of the then President, 
Moses A. Dropsie, presented to the Annual Meeting on Sun- 
day, March 7, 1890: 



To the Members and Donors of the Hebrew Education Society : 

The necessity of educating Jewish youth systematically by com- 
petent teachers, with adequate means for instruction in Hebrew, had 
long been agitated in our community. The knowledge of Hebrew 
was generally imparted by private teachers, most of whom knew but 
little beyond the rudiments of the language that they endeavored to 
teach ; and the compensation received by them for tuition was so 
trifling that they were compelled to pursue other avocations in addi- 
tion for the means of a livelihood. 

For these reasons, the knowledge of Hebrew and of the tenets of 
Judaism possessed by our youth were extremely limited and vague. 

In addition, the text-books used for the instruction of youth in 
the public and private schools were tinctured with the doctrines of 
Christianity, reflecting, wittingly or unwittingly, the views and sym- 
pathies of the authors and compilers. 

This is a true picture of Jewish education in our community 
fifty years ago, and is a correct representation of the condition of eveiy 
Jewish community in the United States at that time. 

The circumstances of the ignorance of our youth as to their 
religion, and the low ebb of Hebrew education in our midst, were 
continually deplored, the difficulties were frequently discussed, but ro 
remedy was adopted. At length, a man arose who indicated the mode 
of solving this intricate problem. That man was Isaac Leeser, who 
may be termed the pioneer of American Judaism, whose ardent devo- 
tion, self-abnegation, inflexible determination and indomitable energy 



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Rev. GEORGE JACOBS 

Board of Officers, 1869 — 1874 

Prof. Maimonides College 

(English Literature) 



^2 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

did more for the advancement of Judaism and the elevation of the 
Jewish character in the United States than any man who previously 
or has since existed. 

Mr. Leeser's solution of the difficulty was by the formation of 
this Society, which, it is believed, was the first organization in the 
United States for the promotion of Jewish education. 

Mr. Leeser's views were large and expanded; he sought not only 
to impart instruction in the rudimental branches of Hebrew education, 
but he planned that the Jewish youth should be taught the highest 
branches of Hebrew literature and philosophy, combined with a 
thorough training of collegiate curriculum. He caused the formation 
of the Hebrew Education Society on March 7, 1847. It was incor- 
porated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, April 7, 1848. The 
charter authorized not only the tormation of preparatory schools, but 
also that of a college, with authority to confer degrees. 

The preparatory school was opened on April 7, 1851, and was 
formed on the model of the public schools. The same text-books were 
used and the same course of instruction was pursued, to which was 
added tuition in Hebrew, Latin, French and German. 

In 1853, the late Judah Touro, through the influence of Mr. 
Leeser, bequeathed to the Society the sum of $20,000, which was re- 
ceived on February 5, 1854, and thereupon the building on Seventh 
Street, below Callowhill, was bought on May 28, 1854, and adapted 
for the school. 

On October 28, 1867, Maimonides College was opened under the 
auspices of the Society. Its design was to impart to its students a 
thorough education in Hel)rew and some of its cognate languages, 
combined with Biblical and Talmudical lore, and also with the 
"humanities," so as to fit them for the rabbinate. 

The Rev. Isaac Leeser, the Rev. Dr. M. Jastrow, the Rev. Dr. 
Bettelheim, and the Rev. S. INIorais tendered their services gratuit- 
ously as professors in the different branches of Jewif-h learning, which 
were gratefully accepted. 

The expenses incident to the education and support of the students 
were greater thin Philadelphia alone could defray without difficulty. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 93 

and the contributions of money from New York, whicli were promised, 
not being forthcoming, the college ceased to exist. 

The preparatory school was of a high order of excellence, and 
compared favorably with the best of its rank, notwithstanding which 
some of our people of advanced thought, but not of advanced educa- 
tion, objected to it for the reason that it was sectarian, the answer to 
which was, that it was open to all, irrespective of creed, that several 
of its teachers were not Jews, and among its pupils were some who 
were not Jews. 

Another objection urged was, that the pupils of the school lost the 
opportunity of being admitted into the High School, when properly 
qualified, as only pupils of the public schools were eligible for admis- 
sion into that institution. Application was made to the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania, which by a special law, placed the pupils of the Hebrew 
Education Society's School on the same footing as that of the public 
schools, a privilege not granted or possessed by any private school. 
Thus this objection was silenced. 

About the year 1876 a number of Russian Jewish immigrants 
settled in the northeastern section of the city, then on the extreme 
boundary of the populated parts, about three and one-fourth miles 
from the centre of the city, and in a locality distant from* the resi- 
dences or places of business of our co-religionists. The locality was 
ill-chosen and lacked the essentials for a proper residence; its only 
advantage was the cheapness of its houses. On the Society being in- 
formed of this colony, they deemed it their duty to provide for its 
educational and moral wants. It opened on December 28, 1879, a 
school for its instruction, and subsequently bought three adjoining 
houses, in which it established schools not only for the mental educa- 
tion of its youth, but also for their manual training, teaching the 
females sewing, knitting, etc., and the males segarmaking, carpenter- 
ing, etc. 

Owing to lack of interest and support, the Society Avas compelled 
to abandon its general preparatory school, and to limit its efforts to 
the teaching of Hebrew and its translation into English, and of Bibli- 
cal instruction, etc. For this purpose, it has established three schools 
in different sections of the city. The manual training school in the 
northeastern section continues, showing good practical results. The 
Society had established a more extensive manual training school in its 



94 HEBRE ir ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

hall on Seventh Street, but, owing to its sale, and another proper 
locality not yet having been obtained, that school is temporarily 
suspended. 

Owing to th3 severe oppression suffered by our co-religionists in 
Russia, about the year 1882, a great exodus took place ; thousands 
abandoned or were driven out of their birthplaces and homes, and 
sought our country as a refuge and as a haven, where they might en- 
joy that freedom which our institutions confer on every human being. 
Upon the advent of the van of these immigrants, thousandsjeontinued 
to flow into our land ; their number has become so great that they 
have peopled not only the large cities, but there is scarcely a village 
or hamlet in the land that does not contain a representative of the 
Slavic-Jewish race. Russians, Poles, Roumanians andj Hungarians 
now abound everywhere. 

These immigrants were received by our co-religionists kindly and 
affectionately, especially in Philadelphia, where extraordinary! efforts 
were invoked for the amelioration of their condition and where public 
sentiment was aroused against their oppressors. 

This great increase of a necessitous Jewish population has createtl 
a corresponding increase of new and greater burdens on the older Jew- 
ish population of this city. These immigrants do not speak our 
language, are unfamiliar with our manners and customs, and were 
born and reared in a country surrounded by an ignorant and unen- 
lightened population. They came poor and helpless, unaided and 
alone ; they were unable to fight the new battles that they had to con- 
tend with. It soon became apparent that, after caring for their physi- 
cal wants, that mental and physical education were primary factors 
affecting their circumstances, and the means of absorbing this incon- 
gruous mass into the body politic and adapting them to become citizens 
and performing their duties and obligations in accord with the laws, 
customs and manners of our civilized society. 

The increase of the Jewish population in the United States during 
the last forty years has been prodigious. The Rev. Isaac Leeser, who 
probably had a better knowledge respecting the Jews in the United 
States, and their number, than any other man, when he wrote a brief 
chapter on this population in No. Ill of the Jewish Miscellany, pub- 
lished by the Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society in 6006, (1846), 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 95 

«ays: "The number of Jews in the city of New York is said to be 
about 10,000." From estimates based on a computation made about 
a dozen years since, and on the increase of immigration and births, and 
deducting the loss by death, it would seem that the Jewish population 
of New York at present is about 80,000, an enormous increase in forty 
years! The patriotic pride of our New York co-religionists claims 
even a greater population than the number here given. 

In the same publication Mr. Leeser states that, "There are now 
three congregations in Philadelphia, numbering about from 1,500 to 
1,800 souls." The Jewish population was then probably about 
2,500. 

An estimate of the Jewish population in Philadelphia at the 
present time has been made on data gathered from the membership 
and seat-holders of the congregations, the membership of the char- 
itable and other socities, clubs, etc. From these statistics it is com- 
puted that there are from 26,000 to 28,000 Jews in our city. Of this 
number about 10,000 were born in Slavic and in Hungarian countries. 
This large population has settled in our midst within the last twelve 
years, their necessities have made great and increased demands on the 
Jewish charitable and educational institutions, and though many of 
that population have succeeded in becoming self-supporting, yet but 
very few of them are able to contribute or do contribute in relieving 
the necessities and caring for the well-being of their countrymen. It 
is a matter of gratulation that our Jewish community, faithful to the 
principles of Judaism are practically applying them in the relief of the 
wants, the amelioration of the condition, and the mental and physical 
education of these immigrants. To accomplish these objects a large 
number of Jewesses have volunteered their services, and give time, 
attention, care and thought, with a devotion and self-denial worthy of 
the holy cause in which they are engaged. 

The Young Men's Hebrew Association have also been working to 
the same end, and have resolved to extend and widen the field of their 
labors, but at present lack the proper facilities for systematic and 
thorough work. Unlike the city of New York, this population is not 
crowded into one locality ; it is somewhat distributed over the citv, 
into w4iat might be termed "clusters;" yet by far the greater bulk 
-of it is located in the territory between South Street and Washington 
Avenue, and Second and Tenth Streets, a territory of one- half mile 



96 HEBBE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

north and south, and two-thirds of a mile east and west. Within this 
territory, the Sunday-school Society has established its schools ; the 
Young Women's Union, which was formed in 1885, has located its 
Kindergarten and a school for teaching kitchen work and housekeep- 
ing, under the auspices of the Hebrew Education Society. The ladies 
forming this organization are producing excellent results. There have 
been continual complaints of the want of proper halls and rooms for 
the uses above mentioned. The increasing population has grown be- 
yond the means afforded for the eiBcient performance of the necessary 
work, besides which the sanitary condition of the rooms and auxiliaries 
is not of a proper character. These evils, though long deplored, are 
not easily remedied. 

It is proposed to secure a plot of land on which to erect a hall 
that should be surrounded with an abundance of light and air, the hall 
to have rooms capable of accommodating 1,500 Sunday-school children 
at one time. It will have rooms for the Young Women's Union and 
Kindergarten ; it will have a room for lectures and a library, and it 
will also contain ample space for the manual training of females and 
males. It is also proposed to have baths for females and males, a 
primary want. 

Mention has been made of the work of the Young Men's Hebrew 
Association. In the erection of the building, regard will be shown to 
its wants, in furnishing lectures and entertainments of musical, social 
and amusing character, and in the establishment of an employment and 
intelligence bureau, where information can be furnished of matters 
which are essential to the Jewish population. 

It is pi'oposed to extend the sphei'e of manual training, especially 
in regard to females, by teaching them such handiwork as is adapted 
to their peculiar skill such as mantua-making, millinery, drafting and 
cutting of garments, phonographic reporting, typewriting, etc. By the 
aid of steam-power, the trades that heretofore have been taught will be 
increased in number. In brief, our aim is to form an institution 
which will contribute more to the education and elevation of the new- 
ly-arrived immigrant than the present system and means atford. We 
propose to erect an institution in which he will feel he has an interest, 
and with pride and gratitude recognize the philanthrophy that cares 
for him, and thus be stimulated to raise himself to the dignity of a 
freeman, conscious that, as a member of our great Republic, he should 




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strive by his acts and deportment to prove his appreciation of Ameri- 
can citizenship. 

The Hebrew Education Society, by the erection of the proposed 
building, and the uses to which it is to be applied, is not prompted 
solely for the welfare of Jews alone ; its benevolence and beneficence 
are not circumscribed by the narrow boundaries that divide mankind 
into races and sects. Remembering the Divine command given to our 
ancestors, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," there will be inscribed on 
the outer walls of their hall the legend, "Free to all, regardless of 
creed or color." 

Our Society is entering on a new career, and the accomplishment 
of its aims will leave its impi-ess on our community long after we have 
passed away. 

Moses A. Dropsie, 

President. 

In 1890 a plot of ground was purchased at the south- 
west corner of Tenth and Carpenter streets, for the sum of 
twelve thousand dollars. It was proposed to erect thereupon 
an edifice that would be perfectly adapted to the needs of the 
Society and of kindred organizations. A Building Fund was 
organized to which tlie Jews of Philadelphia responded with 
unprecedented generosity. The names of those wlio contri- 
buted to this fund will be found in the appendix. The 
cost of erecting tlie buildnig was thirty thousand and 
four hundred dollars, and much more was spent for heating 
apparatus and furnishing. The total expenditure was over 
fifty thousand dollars. The architect was Mr. William H. 
Decker, and Mr. Philip H. Somerset, the builder. The build- 
ing is a substantial edifice built of red brick trimmed with 
granite. To honor the memory of an early benefactor of the 
Society, and of a man eminent as a philanthropist, this splen- 
did structure was named Touro Hall. The corner-stone was 
laid on Tuesday afternoon, September 22, 1891. Perhaps the 
most interesting document deposited therein was a history of 
the Society written in Hebrew by the Rev. Dr. Sabato Morais, 



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DANIEL GANS 
Board of Officers, 1S6.5— 1867 



giving an account of its rise, organization, progress and work. 
The dedication took place on Noveml^er, 27, 1891, — the 
day set apart by the President of the 
United States as a day of Thanks- 
giving. The President, Moses A. 
Dropsie, Esq., delivered an address, 
in which he outlined the work of 
tlie Society and the great good about 
to be accomplished. Dr. Morals 
offered the dedicatory prayer ; music 
was furnished by the orchestra of 
the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- 
tion : a choir of children sang the 
concluding hymn, " My Country, 
'tis of thee," The services were 
brief and impressive. 

A full report of the proceedings on these interesting 
occasions is quoted from the Report of the 44th Annual 
Meeting, held March 13, 1892. 

At the hist Annual Meeting of tlie Society tlie members were in- 
formed that a plot of ground, 77 feet 
on Carpenter Street, Tenth Street 87.1 i 
feet and Paschal Street, 89.7 feet, 
had been purchased at the southwest cor- 
ner of Tenth and Carpenter Streets 
for the sum of $12,000. In March of 
last year, a contract was made with 
Philip H. Somerset to erect the building 
according to plans and specifications 
furnished by William H. Decker, archi- 
tect, for the sum of $30,400; and with 
the Ouderdonk Steam-heating and Ven- 
tilating Company to heat the building for 
the sum of $4,637. The co.«5t of erect- 
ing the building, including the architect's 
charges, was 
dry charges $700, making a total of $48,949.92. 




D.WID TELLER 

Board of Officers, 1867—1868 

,249.92, the cost of the ground was $12,000, and sun- 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 101 

CORNER-STONE. 

Oa Tuesday afternoon, September 22d, 1891, the President de- 
posited a copper box in the corner-stone. 

The following documents were contained therein : 

Rev. Isaac Leeser's address on the opening of the Society's first 
school April 1, 1851, presented by Mrs. Judith Solis Cohen. 

Reports of the Hebrew Education Society and Young Women's 
Union, Charter and By-Laws, also a history of the Society, written in 
Hebrew, by the Rev. Dr. Sabato Morals, giving an account of its 
origin, progress and work, together with a list of names composing the 
present Board of Officers. 

Reports of Jewish Hospital Association, including the ceremonies 
at laying the corner-stone of the Hospital, the corner-stone of the New 
Home and the dedication of the New Home. 

Report of the Jewish Foster Home and Asylum, also Constitution 
and By-Laws. 

Report of the United Hebrew Charities, 1891, 

Report of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hebrew Sunday-school 
Society, Programme of the Fifty-third Anniversary, Constitution and 
By-Laws, 1858 and 1891. 

List of patrons and members Young Men's Hebrew Association, 
prospectus for 1890-91. Constitution and By-Laws. 

Report of the Committee of Arrangements for the corner-stone of 
the Synagogue of the Congregation Mikve Israel, 1859, Charter and 
Constitution and By-Laws, 1824 and 1884. List of present members. 

Constitution and By-Laws Congregation Rodef Shalom, 1867. 

List of the first officers and present officers and members of Con- 
gregation Beth Israel. 

Repoi't of Congregation Keneseth Israel, 1891. 

The Jews in Philadelphia prior to 1800, by Hyman P. Rosen- 
bach. 

Statistics of the Jews of the United States, by Wm. B. Hacken- 
burg, 1880. 

Reports of Hebrew Immigrants' Aid Society, 1882 to 1(S91. 

Prospectus of the Jewish Maternity Association and Seventh 
Annual Report of the Society Esrath Nashim. 

Reports of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1888 and 1890. 

Report of Grand Lodge Kesher Shel Barzel, 1891. 

Report of the Jewish Publication Society and an account of the 
persecution of the Jews in Russia, published by the Society. 



102 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

Report of Orphans' Guardian Society, 1891. 

List of names of officers of the Female Hebrew Benevolent 
Society. 

Reports of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. 

Discourse delivered in the Synagogue Rodef Shalom, Novem- 
ber 24, 1864, panegyric of the Rev Isaac Leeser, and a sketch of the 
Alliance Israelite Universelle, by Moses A. Dropsie, Esq. 

Oration delivered by David Solis Cohen, on the centennial anni- 
versary birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, at Portland, Or. 

The Dagatouus, by Henry S. Morals. 

The Occident, January, 1869, containing an article on the 
Talmud, by Emanuel Deutsch. 

Inaugural report and plan of action of Jewish Alliance of 
America. 

Catalogue of the Leeser Libi'ary, and a report of the Oriental 
Antiquities in the United States National Museum, by Dr. Cyrus 
Adler. 

Memorial of Isidor Biiiswauger, a former President of the Society. 

Report of the first and second annual charity dinner in Phila- 
delphia, 1853 and 1854. 

Ten copies of the PuhVic Ledger, containing the History of the 
Jews of Philadelphia, by Henry S. Morals. 

Daily Papers. 

Jewish weekly papers, Jewish Exponent, American Hebrew, Jew- 
ish Messenger and American Israelite. 

List of names of subscribers to the Building Fund. 



DEDICATION. 

The dedication of the building took place on Thursday afternoon, 
November 27th (Thanksgiving Day) 1891. The exercises commenced 
with the Priest's March, from Mendelssohn's "Athalie," performed 
by the orchestra of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, directed by 
Mr. Marcus Lewin. A hymn in Hebrew was sung by the children of 
the Sunday-school, directed by Mr. Samuel Jacobs, with Mr. Bowers 
as organist. Next followed an address by the President, Moses A. 
Dropsie, Esq., who was followed by Rev. Dr. S. Morals, with the 
Dedicatory Prayer. The Children's Choir then sang "My Country, 
'tis of thee," which concluded the exercises. The thanks of the 
Society are due to all who so kindly assisting, made the occasion such 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 103 

a pleasant ami successful one. The Reception Committee consisted of 
the following gentlemen : 

Clinton O. Mayer, Chairman, Samuel Jacobs, 

Oscar B. Teller, Adolpii Eiciiholz, 

David W. Amram, David Kirschbaum, 

William B. Rosskam, Max Herzberg, 

Walter S. Gans, David Mandel, Jr., 

Frank Bachman, Ephraim I^p:derer, 

Arthur S. Arnold, Bernard Harris. 

FIRST session HELD. 

The first school session was held in the building on Monday, 
December 14th, up to which time the work had been carried on at 
322 Bainbridge Street ; this building has since been sub-let to the 
Hebrew Literature Society, an organizatian consisting entirely of 
Russians, and has been in existence for the last seven years, which 
continues that part of our labors formerly carried on by the Young 
Men's Hebrew Association, the latter taking charge of the Reading 
room. Library, Lectures and Entertainments in the new building. 

how the BUILDING IS BEING OCCUPIED. 

The building is occupied by the Sunday-school (with 650 pupils), 
and Sewing-school (with 285 pupils), of the Hebrew Sunday-school 
Society. 

The Agent of the Immigration Society. 

The Auxiliary Charities having in charge the dispensing of the 
Baron de Hirsch Trust and Employment Bureau. 

Hebrew School. 

Night School, English branches. 

Tin-smithing School. 

Dress-making School. 

Carpentry School. 

The dimensions of the bathing-pool are 14 x 38.6 feet, with a 
depth ranging from 4 to 5 feet. 

subscriptions to THE BUILDING. 

The amount subscribed to the Building Fund to date, $30,364 00 

Of this amount $1,815.81 was received from the 
Hebrew Sunday-school Society. 
The subscriptions to the Furniture Fund amounted to 2,660 00 



Making a total, .$33,024 00 



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THEODORE MINDEL 
Board of Officers, 1868—1874 



The officers of tlie Hebrew Education Societ}^ during the 
eventful year in which was consummated the fond desires of 

many of its former workers, were 
Moses A. Dropsie, president; Isaac 
Rosskam, vice-president ; Gabriel 
Blum, treasurer, and David Sulz- 
berger, honorary secretary. 

The first school session in the 
new building was held on Monday, 
December 14, 1891, and from this 
date the work of the Society has 
gone on with a full measure of 
successs. A year after the opening 
of Touro Hall, 1345 pupils had been 
admitted into the Hebrew course, 
919 in the course in English and 
164 in the cigar-making department. A night school was 
established in order to accom- 
modate those who were unable 
to attend during the Any. The 
financial condition of the So- 
ciety was fairly prosperous, 
and the membership roll was 
increased. 

Miss Ellen Phillips, whose 
demise took place on February 
2, 1891, and who had been for 
many years interested in the 
success of the Hebrew Educa- 
tion Societ}^ bequeathed to it 
the sum of fifteen thousand 
dollars. A bronze tablet erect- 
ed in her memory was placed 
in the main hall. 

It bears this inscription : 
" In memory of Miss Ellen ^iss ellen phillips 

Phillips, a kind friend and generous benefactor of the Society 








JSCAR S.STRAUS 
TRUSTEES OF BARON DE HIRSCH FUND. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



107 




DAVID AARON 
Board of Officers, 1871—1876 



Her unstinted and unsectarian charity and long continued 
labor in the religious education of youth, add her name to 
the distinguished roll of the women 
of Israel who have enobled humanity." 

THE PRINCIPAL BENEFICIARIES. 

The industrial and general educa- 
tion which the Society is disseminat- 
ing among the Russian refugees settled 
in this city and in which special direc- 
tion over five thousand dollars of its 
income is expended, has been furthered 
since September, 1892, by the allot- 
ment of twenty-four hundred dollars 
per annum accorded to this Society 
from the Baron de Hirsh Fund. 

Thus the Hebrew Education So- 
ciety has become the local agency for the educational worlc 
of the great charity organized in this country for the benefit 
of the Russian and Roumanian Jews, 
by the late Baron Maurice de Hirscli. 
Tliis foundation was established 
by a special deed of trust, executed 
March 1, 1890, and was committed 
to a Board of Trustees, with head- 
cjuarters in New York. 

The original committee was com- 
posed as follows : Hon. Mayer S. 
Isaacs, President; Jacob H. Schiff, 
Vice-President; Dr. Julius Goldman, 
Secretary ; Emanuel Lehman, Treas- 
urer; Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Jesse 
Seligman, Henry Rice and James H. 
Hoffman of New York, and Hon. 
Mayer Sulzberger and Wm. B. Hackeiiburg of Philadelphia ; 
Hon. A. S. Solomon, General Agent of the Foundation. 

The Hon. Oscar S. Straus and Dr. Goldman have resigned 




HERMAN VAN BEIL 

Charter Member 

Board of Officers, 1848—1849 



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HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 



from the Committee, and Jesse Seligman died. Mr. Abraiiam 
Abraham has since been added to the Board, 

The capital amounts to two million and five hundred 
thousand dollars, and the income therefrom is about one 

hundred thou- 
sand dollars 
per annum ; 
sixty per cent, 
of this is in- 
tended for ed- 
ucational pur- 
poses, and 
from this 
source is the 
annual contri- 
b u t i n of 
twenty- four 
hundred dol- 
lars to the 
Hebrew Edu- 
cation Society 
obtained. 

The Com- 
mittee have es- 
tablished Eng 
lish schools 
and T r a d e 
Schools in 
New York, 

and an Agricultural and Industrial School at Woodbine, 
New Jersey. The forty per cent, is used to assist industrial 
immigrants by furnishing them with tools, and if necessary 
with loans, upon farms they have themselves acquired and 
demonstrated their ability to work to advantage, etc. The 
Philadelphia office is conducted by the Auxiliary Branch of 
the United Hebrew Charities (in Touro Hall.) 




SIMON EbFBLT. 

Charter Member 

Vice Pi'esident, 1848 

Board of Officers, 1818—1850. 




BARON MAURICE DE HIRSCH, 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Ill 



The Trust co-operates with existing philanthropic insti- 
tutions in various places. 




Mrs. ROSANNA OSTERMAN 



Baron Maurice de Hirsch died in 
Paris in May, 1896, and the deplor- 
able event was made the occasion of 
a special meeting of the Board of 
Officers, at which the following reso- 
lution was adopted : 

" In solemn resignation to the 
Divine will, this Society mourns the 
death of Baron Maurice de Hirsch as 
that of the noblest philanthropist of 
modern times and as that of a man 
who has afforded, not only to Israel, 
but to all mankind, one of the most 
signal examples of devotion to his suf- 
fering brethren that history has recorded. 

" As almoners of a part of the world-wide benefactions 
which Baron de Hirsch had instituted during his lifetime, 
the Hebrew Education Societ}' of 
Philadelphia has special occasion to 
testify to the grandeur of his under- 
taking for the benefit of his suffering 
co-religionists in this land of their 
refuge as well as in the lands of their 
oppression. Here, as elsewhere in 
the broad expanse of Baron de 
Hirsch's charity, the foundation of 
his beneficence has been laid by 
him on the grand work of education 
and enlightenment, and these great 
factors of moral and material well- 
being he has strengthened by a far- 
seeing provision for the permanent 
elevation of the suffering victims of oppression through aiding 
them to self-maintenance. Thus founded the charity which 




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HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




he has extended to the multitude of his beneficiaries, has be- 
come an unmixed good, and thereby his vast munificence has 
been made a blessing to tliem and to 
their posterity. 

"The generous bounty and far- 
reacliing benevolence of Baron Maurice 
de Ilirsch will find in the elevation 
and future development of the Russian 
Jews in America, both in the Northern 
and Southern continents, a living mon- 
ument that is destined to be as lasting 
as the history of civilization." 

(Signed) Isaac Rosskam, 
D. SuLZBERGEii, President. 

xMrs.minnik k. ARNOLD Secretary. 

Board of Officers, 1890—1891 

An engrossed copy of the above, suitably bound in the 
form of a volume, was forwarded to the widowed Baroness De 
Hirsch, its receipt eliciting the following acknowledgements: 

2 Kue (le I'Elysee, 
Paris, July 30, 1896. 
The Secretary to tlie Hebrew Edneation 
Society in PJiUadelpJiia : 

Dear Sir, — I am greatly obliged to 
you for forwarding me the resolutious of 
your Board, and beg of you to convey to 
the members of the Board my heartfelt ap- 
preciation of their thoughtful kindness. 
Yours truly, 
Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth. 

2 Ruede I'Elysee, 
Paris, August 7, 1896. 
To tlie Board of Officers oftJie Hebrew Ed- 
ucation Society in Philadelphia : 

Gentlemen, — I am in possession of the minute adopted in the 
meeting of your Board on the 10th of IMay last to take action on the 
death of the late Baron Maurice de Hirsch, which you forwarded to 




morris c. lighten 

Board of Officers, 1882—1884 




BARONESS CLARA DE HIRSCH-GEREUTH. 



HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 



115 



me in so handsome and tasteful a form. I was deeply touched by the 
feelings of thankfulness and admiration set forth therein towards my 
regretted husband, and I wish to thank you and to express my heart- 
felt appreciation of this token of thoughtful kindness on your part. 

Yours very truly, Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth/'' 



The erec- 
tion of Toiiro 
Hall, and its 
complete and 
thorough equip- 
ment for its 
great educa- 
tional purpose, 
natural! y re- 
sulted in soon 
making the es- 
tablishment a 
ceiitre of intel- 
lectual activity. 
This develop- 
ment has man- 
ifested itself in 
many different 
ways, such as 
the formation, 
tentatively it is 
true, of a class 
in higher He- 
brew as in a 
measure prepar- 
atory for the 

courses of the newly founded Gratz College, and the arrange- 
ment and delivery of a series of University Extension Lec- 
tures. The condition of this movement cannot better be in- 
dicated than by a citation of the letter from the Secretary of 

*Reference to the death of the Baroness de Hirsch will be found 
included iu the appended Fifty-first Annual Report, March, 1899. 




ISIDORE COONS 

Board of Officers, llSSo— 1886 

Vice-President, 1886—1891 



116 



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Mrs. HORACE A. NATHANS 
Board of Offlcers, 1890 



the University Extension Society, as communicated to the 
Secretary of the Education Society and which we quote in 

full, as follows : 

Philadelphia, February 9, 1894. 
My Dear Sir : 

I beg to report that the six lecture 
courses on Civics, arranged originally be- 
tween Mr. Walter Vrooman and myself, on 
behalf of the Society, was delivered at Touro 
Hall on the following dates : September 28, 
October 5, 12, 17, 24 and 31. Permission 
to use the hall was very kindly given by the 
Hebrew Education Society, through yourself. 
It was originally expected that there would 
be in attendance a large number of those not 
in any way connected with the school held 
under the auspices of the Hebrew Education Society, and Mr. Vroo- 
man expressed great confidence in his ability to secure an audience that 
would entirely fill the lecture room placed by the Society at our dis- 
posal. His expectations in this respect were not realized, so that 
the course was really given to the older students of your own evening 
school. This of itself, however, made an 
excellent audience and one that was no 
doubt better prepared for the instruction 
given than a more general audience would 
have been. 

I have to report the closest attention 
to the lectures, and a wide-awake intelli- 
gent interest in the subjects discussed. 
Several students passed the examination 
successfully. The conditions of issuing 
certificates were that an essay should be 
written at some time while the course was 
in progress, on some one of the subjects 
assigned, these conditions having been 
several times clearly stated to the students. 

The names of those who received certificates are INIorris Joseph- 
son, Joseph I. Komarovski, Julius H. Komarovski and Joseph Katz. 
In conclusion allow me to say that the conditions at Touro Hall 




pnn.ip LEWiN 

Board of Officers, 188G— 1894 



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117 




seem excellent for University Extension work, and that it is my strong 
conviction that if a canvass were properly made, in the ordinary 

University Extension manner, an audience 
could be found that would fill the lecture 
room. The limited attendance to which 
reference is made above, probably resulted 
from an attempt to bring the audience too 
great a distance, and from a lack of famili- 
arity with University Extension methods. 
Trusting that you will command my ser- 
vices whenever I can be of any assistance, 
1 am 

Very cordially yours, 

Edavard T. Devine, 

Lecturer. 
To Mr. David Sulzberger. 
Mrs. flokexce k. liveuight 

Board of Officers. 1892— 1WJ3 

^"'*' In the following Fall season an- 

other University Extension course was organized and six 
lectures were delivered, beginning in November, 1894, and 
ending in January, 1895. Regarding this course, it is cited 
in the Annual Report for 1895, 
that "the lecturer, Mr. Cheesman A. 
Herrick, was enabled by his distinct 
and clear enunciation to hold the at- 
tention of his audience. The 'talk' 
at the close of the lecture was invari- 
ably instructive and interesting. 

The subject, American History, 
was comprised under the following- 
heads : 

I. Discovery and Early Settle- 
ment of America. 

II. Colonial History. 

III. Revolutionary War. 

IV. The Constitution. 

V. National Development. 

VI. Our Great Civil War. 
In an article which appeared in the University Extension 




HENRY GERSTLEY 
Board of Officers, ISSU— 1891 



118 



HEBREW EDUCATION S0CIE2 Y. 




Mrs. H. S. LOUCHHEIM 
Board of Officers, 1893 ■ 



Journal, August, 1894, written by Frank S. Edmonds, he 
shows in a table of statistics that there were thirty-two 

classes in the University Extension 
of Philadelphia, with a total atten- 
dance of 2095 ; certificates granted, 
46 ; of these ten were given to those 
who attended the lectures at the He- 
brew Literature Society, 322 Bain- 
bridge street, and four to those who 
attended at Touro Hall." 

The outcome of this enterprise is 
briefly stated in the President's Re- 
port, at the annual meeting on March 
8, 1896, from which it appears that 
"the question of University Exten- 
sion was considered by the Board of 
Officers, and was debated at considerable length. It 
was, however, eventually decided that while the lectures 
had been measurably successful and advantageous, it neces- 
sarily shortened the hours of instruction in the entire school, 
while but a small j^ortion of the 
pupils understood the lecturer or 
were benefited thereby; furthermore, 
it was stated that Ei)hraim Lederer, 
Escj., intended continuing his lec- 
tures on the Constitution as here- 
tofore, all of which would take away 
too much time from the regular 
course of instruction, more especi- 
ally since the Young Men's Hebrew 
Association lias furnished a series of 
entertainments and a course of lec- 
tures during tire entire winter of 
1895 and the spring of 1896." 

Two other courses of lectures 
were delivered, the one on the "Victorian Poets," and the 
other on the " English Novelists." 




.SOL. L. HAAS 

Treasurer, 18.S8 

Board of Officers, 1889—1890 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



119 



Those oil the " Victorian Poets " were delivered by Dr. 
Frederick H. Sykes, on October 28, November 4 and 11, 

1897 ; the subjects were Alfred Tenny- 
son, Alfred Austin and Rudyard Kip- 
ling. The average attendance, 156. 

The " English Novelists " series 
was delivered by Mr. Clyde Furst, on 
January 27, February 3, 10 and 17, 

1898 ; the subjects being Sir Walter 
Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray 
and Charles Dickens, with an average 
attendance of 149. 




Mrs. EVA COONS 
Board of Officers, 1S93— 



In 1895, on the occasion of the 
high holiday season, a free synagogue 
for the benefit of the large Jewish pop- 
ulation in the district around Touro Hall, was inaugurated 
in that building. This assembly has been continued during 
the holidays since its first organization, the arrangements 
being now under the direct control of the Society. 

These free services have proven attractive to the wor- 
shippers and generally satisfactory. 
The excellent personnel of the congre- 
gations which assemble, the notable 
dignity and decorum of the service 
and the general circumstances attend- 
ing the occasions, all point to the great 
desirability of establishing these free 
services on a permanent basis. 

The educational value, the elevat- 
ing influence and the far-reaching sig- 
nificance of such services, properly es- 
tablished and controlled, cannot but 
be apparent to those who are con- 
versant with the existing condi- 
tions among our Russo-Jewish brethern in the southern 
section of the citv. 




ANDREW KAAS 

Board of Officers 1892— 



120 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

At the meeting of the Board, held April 19, 18^9, the 
Secretary reported the following correspondence between him- 
self and Rev. Dr. H. Morals. 

Philadelphia, April 18, 1889. 
Rev. Dr. S. Morais, 

President Theological Seminary. 
Dear Sir : 

It was brought to the notice of the Board of Officers of 
the Hebrew Education Society that a number of Hebrew 
books donated to the Society some time ago were in a bad 
condition and would cost considerable to put into such shape 
as to make them available. On motion the Secretary was re- 
quested to make the best possible disposition of them. Be- 
ing a legacy, the books cannot be given away, but by the 
authority conferred on me by the resolution I have deter- 
mined to have them bound at my own expense and loan 
them to the Theological Seminary, until such time as the 
Board of Officers or the Society may desire that they be 
returned. 

To which the following reply was received: 
David Sulzberger, Esq., 
Dear Sir : 

In the name of the Jewish Theological Seminary Asso- 
ciation I thank you for having had the Hebrew books, to 
which you have reference, bound at your own expense, and 
through you I beg to thank the officers of the Hebrew Edu- 
cation Society for their offer to let the pupils of said institu- 
tion have the use thereof for an indeterminate time. 

April 19, 1889. Yours very respectfully, S. Morals. 

Pursuant to the above the following books were sent to 
the Theological Seminary of New York. 

Talmud — Gittin, Chulin, Yebamoth, Rosh Ha Shanah, 
Pesachim, Shabath, Berachoth, Baba Batra, Baba Kama, 
Nidah, Erubin, Zebachim, Menachot, Synhedrin. 

Shulchax Aruch — Eben Ha Ezer, Chosen Mishpot, Orach 
Chayim. 

Shaloth V. Tishuboth, Mate Dan, En Yaacob. 



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121 




The Technical School of the B'nai B'rith was removed 
from its former location in Pine street, to Touro Hall in Jan- 
uary, 1897, the Society having made 
special provision for its accomodation. 
A record of this proceeding is afforded 
by the correspondence relating to it, 
which is here appended : 

Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 1896. 
Benjamin Wolf, E^q., President pro tem. of 
the Hebrew Edi(cafioii Sociefy : 

At the stated meeting of the Governing 
Committee of the B'nai B'rith Manual 
Training School held last evening the fol- 
lowing motion was adopted unanimously : 

That the (joverning Committee of the 

GEORGE WIENER ,, , ,„ . . r, , , i ^ a 13 1 

Board of Officers, 1885-1890 Manual 1 raining School apply to the Board 

of Directors of the Hebrew Education Society for space in its huild- 
ing in which to pursue the work of the B'nai B'rith Manual Training 
School and that a committee of three he appointed to confer with a 
similar committee of your Board of Directors to perfect the necessary 
arrangements. 

The committee appointed by the Gov- 
erning Committee of the Manual Training 
School are Brothers H. S. Friedman, 
Charles Hoffman and Jacob Singer. 
Kindly inform me of your action. 
Submitting this for your kind consider- 
ation, by order of tlie Governing Commit- 
tee of the U. T. S. 

Very truly yours, 
M. K. Cohen, Secrefanj, 

2123 Camac Place. 




SIMON FLEISHER 
Board of Officers, 1887—1893 



To this the following reply was 
forwarded ; 

Philadelphia, Dec, 15, 1896. 
To the Committee of the Manual Training Sshool of the Independent 
Order of B'nai B'rith : 
Gentlemen, — Your commuuicatioa in regard to your school 



122 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 



was considered at a stated meeting of the Board of Officers of the He- 
brew Education Society, held on Sunday last, the loth inst., when a 
resolution was adopted authorizing the Industrial and Hull Commit- 
tees to grant the use of such rooms in Touro Hall as may he required 
for your classes. 

The committees are desirous of aiding in furthering the work 
which, up to the 
present time, has 
been so ably con- 
ducted by you and 
assure you of their 
cheerful co-operation 
and shall be pleased 
to meet you either 
this evening, to-mor- 
row evenirig or 
Thursday evening to 
arrange the neces- 
sary details, I am. 
Most respectfully 
yours, 

D. SULZBERfiER, 

Chairmiin Hall Com. 



On Februai-y 
3, 1897, the Gov- 
erning Committee 
of the B'nai B'rith 
Manual Training 
School li el d a 
meeting in Touro 
Hall, and directed 




GABRIEIi BLUM 
Treasurer, 1891 



to the Board of Officers the foUowino- communication 



Philadelphia, February 10, 1897. 
David Snhbergey, Secretari/ Hebrew Education Society : 

Dear Sir : — At the last meeting of tiie Governing Committee of 
the B'nai B'rith Manual Training School, held on February 3, 1897, 
I was requested to say to you that in accordance with the arrange- 



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123 



ments made between the committee of your Board of Directors and a 
like number of our Governing Committee, the kind offer you extended 

to us in granting sufficient room in your 
building for our Manual Training School 
has been accepted, and we are now occu- 
pying the space alloted to us. 

The thanks of the Governing Com- 
mittee of the B'nai B'rith Manual Train- 
ing School is hereby tendered to the He- 
brew Education Society, which, through 
. the Board of Directors, is ever ready to 

^^tk ^^ W^^^^ promote the interest of education among 

ll^^^^^^^^^^^HlJli Israelites. Your aid and assistance 

■HJ^Hb^ ^^^^^^P otherwise extended to our cause is also 

f^HJH mKMftIm accepted and will be gratefully remem- 

bered by us. 

MAYER GANS Trusting that harmony of action 

may always exist between us, and that 
our joint efforts may be cj-owned with the best results, 

I remain very truly yours, 

M. K. Cohen, 
Secretary Governing Committee, E nal B'rith M. T. S. 

At the meeting of the Board of 
Officers, held November 14, 1897, a 
communication was received from 
Moses A. Dropsie, President of the 
Board of Trustees of Gratz College, 
asking for rooms in Touro Hall for 
the purpose of the College. Three 
rooms were prepared and the free 
use of them granted for the classes 
which were instructed by Mess. 
Speaker, Dembitz and Husik. The 
College was opened on January 3, 
1898, the classes instructed by Mess. 
Dembitz and Husik were opened Jan- 
uary 6. Instruction in Mr. Speaker's class did not begin 
until January 25. 




DAVID HCJFFMAN 



124 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




DR. MORRIS JASTROW, JR 
Board of Officers, 1801— 1S!I2 



111 reviewing the fift}^ years' work of the Society as 
recorded in the preceding pages, one important feature of 

its history may well be dwelt upon. 
While constantly keeping in 
view the prime object of the Hebrew 
Education Society's existence, which 
is suliiciently indicated in its title, 
the steadfast policy pursued by the 
organization during the past twenty 
years of its activity has been that of 
keeping its work rigorously within 
the limits imposed by the means 
available for the purpose. In this 
period the Society has constantly 
aimed to widen its scope and to meet 
the increasing requirements of its 
work to the fullest possible extent, but always with such 
conservation of its forces as would give security to its founda- 
tion and permanence to its future. 

The decline of the Society's influence and efficiency 
which developed in the third decade 
of its existence, and which reached 
its lowest stage about 1878, was defi- 
nitely brought about by a neglect of 
these prime considerations, as is 
clearly manifest from the various re- 
ports of its officers, who sought, as 
it appears from these reports, to make 
the Society's school to ''excel all 
others." Laudable as was such ambi- 
tion, it was undoubtedly ill-advised, 
as is evidenced by the fact that the 
entire legacy of Judah Touro, amount- 
ing to twenty thousand dollars, in- 
stead of being set aside as a source of income, was spent 
upon the current work and its value as a foundation 
thus completely destroyed. It is not to be said that the fund 




EDWARD WOLF. 
Board of Officers, iSiU- 



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125 




Mrs. matilda H. COHEN 



was wasted, inasmuch as no. little good was accomplished by 
its use, but the policy thus indicated may justly be 
considered as more than questionable. 
Tliis policy has since been reversed, 
and the By-Laws of the Society have 
l)een carefully framed to the end that 
every legacy be made a permanent 
fund, and that only its income may be 
currently used. 

With tbe beginning of the present 
decade, the Society entered a period 
of comparative and increasing pros- 
perity. In 1891 new classes of mem- 
bership were organized, including that 
of regular members paying five dollars 
per animm , patrons contributing 
twenty-five dollars and friends one hundred dollars annually, 
and in ]<S94 the fee for life membership was increased from 
one hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars. 

In 1879 the report of the Treasurer showed the whole 
income from membership dues to be 
$435.00, and from the Permanent 
Fund (the $2500 estate of Daniel 
Gans), $150.00 a total of $585.00. 

In 1898 the report of the Treas- 
urer shows an income from the like 
sources of a total of $5425.82, a ten- 
fold increase of resources, enabling a 
naturally corresponding increase of 
the Society's activity. 

During a period of twenty-seven 
years, namely from 1851 to 1X78, tlio 
school of the Society was conducted 
on the plan of a seminary, giving a 
general education to its pupils. In the latter year it was 
found necessary to abandon this undertaking, and the 
work of the Society was then restricted to the single direc- 




HEZEKIAH ARNOLD 
Executor Estate Isaac Leeser 



126 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




tion of instruction in Hebrew. In 1891, however, the 
Society found itself enabled to extend its efforts in the 

direction of industrial education, 
and several trade schools, as well as 
an English night school, were then 
instituted. These schools have since 
been continued and enlarged, and 
most excellent results have been ac- 
complished in both directions.. 

The industrial schools have at- 
tracted a gratifying number of pupils, 
many of whom have acquired a de- 
gree of proficiency in their respective 
callings sufficient to enable them to 
thereby earn a living. 
Mrs. bertha gans gi^^ce 1869 the Society has re- 

ceived an annual donation of varying amount from the 
Charity Ball Fund, and since 1892, a stipend of two hun- 
dred dollars per month from the American Baron de 
Hirsch Fund. These contributions, supplementing the in- 
come of the Society from its mem- 
bers, patrons and friends and from its 
Permanent Fund, have enabled the 
Societ}^ to develop its work to a 
degree not otherwise possible. 

The far-reaching importance of 
the Society's work can be fully a})- 
preciated only by those who have 
personally visited the various schools 
while in session, and thus realized 
that the beneficent work of the He- 
brew Education Society accrues to 
the benefit, not merely of its pupils, 
but ultimately to the community 
of which they form a part. 




LEOPOLD FURTH 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. V21 

LEGACIES. 

In the following list of tlie Permanent Fund of the So- 
ciety, it will be found that some of the legacies became opera- 
tive some time after the death of the testators; that of 
Mayer Arnold was a contingent bequest, and though he died 
in 1868, it was not until 1883 that the legacy was paid. 

The Sussman legacy was held at Bellefonte for some 
time, the deceased having willed five hundred dollars for a 
Hebrew school at that place, but in the event of none being 
established, the bequest should be paid to the Hebrew Edu- 
cation Society of Philadelphia. 

The first payment of interest on this legacy was re- 
ported at the meeting of the Board of Officers, held .June 
6, 1886. 

The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company was 
custodian of the fund until 1895. At a meeting of the Board 
of Officers, held on December 8th of that year, it was reported 
that the legacy of Abraham Sussman had been paid over to 
the Society by the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Com- 
pany, pursuant to an order of the Orphan's Court of Centre 
County at Bellefonte, at a session of the Court held November 
25, 1895. 

The legacy of |2500 from Daniel Gans was in the hands 
of his executors, Messrs. Mayer and Aaron Gans, for a period 
of twenty years. In 1889 Mr. Aaron Gans, the surviving 
executor, applied to the Orphan's Court to be relieved of the 
trust, which a})plication was granted ; the President became 
the trustee ex-offido, with the Society itself as the surety. 

The legacy of two hundred dollars from Isaac Leeser 
only became operative six years after his death, at which 
time a final settlement of the estate was made. 

The amounts bequeathed by Solomon Soils ($200), 
Rosanna Osterman ($1000), Isaac Leeser ($200) and .Jacob 
Bamberger ($250), amounting to sixteen hundred and fifty 
dollars, had been applied to the general purposes of the 
Society; however, through the efforts of the Board of Officers, 



128 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

between the years 1889 and 1891, this amount was recovered 
into the treasury of the Society. 

The Touro legacy of twenty thousand dollars could not so 
be recovered, but the Board of Officers on the erection of the 
new building in 1891, at the southwest corner of Tenth and 
Carpenter streets, named it Touro Hall. This edifice, when 
completed, cost fifty-two thousand dollars. It is a worthy 
monument of that great philanthropist. 



HEBRE W ED VGA TION SO CIET Y. 129 



Permanent Fund. 

The Permaneut Fund consists of the legacies to the Society since 1854, 
Life Memberships and the money at interest for Special Prizes. 

1854. Solomon Soils $ 200 00 

1866. Rosanna Ostermau 1,000 00 

1869. Daniel Gans 2,500 00 

1874. Isaac Leeser 200 00 

Jacob Bamberger ... 250 00 

1882. Abraham Adler 300 00 

1883. Mayer Arnold 100 00 

1886. Mayer Gans 500 00 

Abraham Sussman 500 00 

1887. Rachel Whitzstein (Industrial Fund) ... 200 00 
Rev. J. Frankel 25 00 

1891. Bertha Gans 250 00 

1892. Ellen Phillips 15,000 00 

1894. Leopold Furth 50 00 

David Hottman 500 00 

1896. Solomon Gans 500 00 

1897. Morris Sickles 100 00 

Simon Fleisher 1,000 00 

Joseph Rosenbaum 500 00 

1898. Lucieu Moss 100 00 

1899. Aaron Lichten 250 00 

Henry Gerstley 1,000 00 

Theresa Loeb 400 00 

Lena Max 100 00 

Prize Fund, Industrial School: 

Sidney Trieste Memorial for Children .... 100 00 

Sidney Trieste Memorial for Adults 300 00 

Prize Fund, Industrial School for Girls: 

Matilda H. Cohen Memorial 100 00 

Prize Fund, Night School: 

Isidore Coons Memorial 100 00 

Prize Fund, Kindergarten: 

Morton M. Newburger Memorial - . 100 00 

Prize Fund, Arithmetic and Comjiosition: 

Aaron Lichten 1,000 00 

Life Membership Fund 500 00 

27,725 00 



Names of Officers since the Organiza- 
tion of the Society, 
1848-1898. 



Presidents. 



1848 S. SoLis,* 
1854 A. S. Wolf, 
1862 M. A. Dropsie, 

1870 I. BlNSWANGER, 

1878 A. Abler,* 



1880 Isaac Rosskam, 
1889 M. A. Dropsie, 
1892 Mover Fleisher, 
1895 Isaac Rosskam, 
1898 Benjamin Wolf. 



Vice-Presidents. 



1848 Simon Elfelt, 

1849 A. S. Wolf, 
1854 Rev. I. Leeser, 

1861 M. A. Dropsie, 

1862 A. T. Jones, 
1867 Rev. M. Jastrow, 
1874 A. Adler, 



1848 Abraham Hart, 

1875 S. MuHR, 

1876 S. B. Fleisher, 



1848 L. M. Klosser, 
Z. A. Davis, 
M. A, Dropsie, 

1849 A. I. H. Bernal, 
Rev. I. Leeser, 

1850 A. T. Jones, 
1854 M. M. Allen, 
1857 J. M. Emanuel, 



1878 Isaac Rosskam, 

1880 Mayer Sulzberger, 

1881 Isaac Saller, 
1886 Isidore Coons, 
1891 Isaac Rosskam, 
1895 Benjamin Wolf, 
1898 Ephraim Lederer. 



Treasurers. 

1883 
1888 
1891 

Secretaries. 



Sol. L. Haas, 
Levi Mayer, 
Gabriel Blum. 



1863 L. M. Allen, 

1863 A. M. Frechie, 

1864 Edwin W. Arnold. 
1866 Dr. J. SoLis Cohen, 
1868 Aaron Lazarus, 
1870 Samuel Hecht, 
1874 A. Lichten, 

1876 D. Sulzberger. 



AssT. Secretaries. 



1848 
1849 
1851 

1868 



S. M. Klosser. 
D. Van Beil, 
A. FiNzi, 
Elis p. Levy, 



1873 L. A. MiTCHELL,(protem) 

1874 L. A. Mitchell, 
1874 H. M. Rosenbaum, 
1876 E. L. Rosenbaum, 



1877 Louis Gerstley. 
None chosen after ] 878. 



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131 



Board of Officers. 



David Aaron, 

S. Alexander, 

Michael M. Allen, 

David W. Amram, 

S. Appel, 

Edwin Arnold, 

Mrs. Minnie K. Arnold, 

Mayer Arnold, 

Simon W. Arnold, 

Maurice Bamberger, 

Dr. Aaron S. Bettelheim, 

•Isidore Binswanger, 

Charles Bloomingdale, 

S. N. Carvalho, 

Marcus Caufman, 

Charles J. Cohen, 

David S. Cohen, 

Jacob Solis Cohen, 

Lewis I. Cohen, 

Myer D. Cohen, 

Mrs. Eva Coons, 

Isidore Coons, 

Henry Dalsheimer, 

Zadoc a. Davis, 

H. De Boer, 

Moses A. Dropsie, 

Joseph Einstein, 

Simon Elfelt, 

Louis Eschner, 

Mrs. Samuel Espen, 

Joseph Fels, 

Ben J. W. Fleisher, Jr., 

Mover Fleisher, 

Simon B. Fleisher, 

Simon Fleisher, 

Henry M. Frank, 

A. M. Frechie, 

H. Friedberger, 

Daniel Gans, 

Solomon Gans, 

Henry Gerstley, 

Louis Gerstley, 

William Gerstley, 

M. Goldman, 

A. Goldsmith, 

Mrs. Wm. B. Hackenburg, 



Sol. L. Haas, 

Abraham Hart, 

Lazarus Hecht, 

Joseph Heilbron, 

Simon Heiter, 

Mason Hirsh, 

Isaac Hyneman, 

Sam'l M. Hyneman, 

Dr. Judah Isaacs, 

Rev. George Jacobs, 

Morris Jastrow, Jr., 

C. Johnson, 

Alfred T. Jones, 

Andrew Kaas, 

Morris Kohn, 

Jacob Langsdorf, 

L. J. Leberman, 

Ephraim Lederer, 

Rev. Isaac Leeser, 

Louis E. Levy, 

Philip Lewin, 

Aaron Lighten, 

Morris C. Lighten, 

Moses H. Lighten, 

Mrs. Florence K. Liveright, 

Simon Liveright, 

Jacob Loeb, 

Mrs. H. S. Louchheim, 

A. Mailert, 

H. Mayer, 

Jacob Mayer, 

Lp:vi Mayer, 

Jacob Miller, 

Theodore Mindel, 

Henry Mitchel, 

M. A. Mitchell, 

Rev. Sabato Morais, 

LuciEN Moss, 

Michael Mover, 

Jacob Muhr, 

Simon Muhr, 

Joseph Newhouse, 

Mrs. Horace A. Nathans, 

Moses Nathans, 

David Pesoa, 

H. POLOCK, 



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HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



t. b. pottsdamer, 
Isaac Rohskam, 
Wm. B, Rosskam, 
Ed. L. Rothschild, 
Isaac Saller, 
Joseph Schoeneman, 
Mark Schwartz, 
Joseph J. Snei>lenbur(;, 
David H. Solis, 
Julius Stern. 
Samuel Sternberger, 
Jacob Sulzberger, 



Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, 
David Teller, 
Solomon Teller, 
S. Thalheimer, 
A. C. Van Beil, 
H. Van Beil, 
George Wiener, 
Abm. 8. Wolf, 
Benjamin Wolf, 
Edward Wolf, 
Elias Wolf, 
Jacob Wolf. 



Officers of the Young Women's Union 

From 1886 to 1896. 

Presidents. 

1886 Miss Fanny BiNswANGER, 1893 Rosina Fels, 

1896 Alice E. Jastrow. 

Vice- Presidents. 



1886 Mrs. Edw'd Goldstein, 

1887 Miss Rosina Fels, 
1893 Miss Alice E. Jastrow, 



1894 Miss J. Friedberger, 

1895 Miss Alice E. Jastrow, 

1896 Miss Helen Fleisher. 



Treasurers. 

1886 Miss Amelia J. Allen, 1890 Miss Elvira N. Solis, 

1887 Miss Teresa Fleisher, 1893 Miss Amelia Bissinger, 

1895 Miss Julia Friedberger. 

Recording Secretaries. 

1886 Miss Clara Ostheim, 1892 Miss Carrie E. Amram, 

1890 Miss Rosa Goldsmith, 1893 Miss Sarah Weil, 

1895 Miss Leah Abeles. 

Corresponding Secretaries. 



1886 Miss M. Goldstein, 

1887 Miss Grace Fuestman, 
1889 Miss Amelia Bissinger, 



1890 Miss Addie H. Teller, 
1892 Miss Clara Potsdamer, 
1896 Miss M. Friedenwald. 



SUMMARY. 



January 27, 1847 — Hebrew School Fund Ball. 

March 7, 1847 — Preliminary meeting held. 

June 4, 1848 — Constitution and By-Laws adopted. 

July 16, 1848 — First regular meeting held. 

April 7, 1849 — Society incorporated. 

April 7, 1851 — School first opened in Zane (Filbert) street. 

October 26, 1851 — Plans suggested "in order to raise funds 
for the benefit of the Society." 

1852 — Meeting of Committees of the Society with a com- 
mittee of the Congregation Rodef Shalom, to con- 
sider the advisability of opening an additional He- 
brew school. 

February 23, 1853 — First Charity Dinner. 

1854 — Solomon Soils, first President of the Society, died (dur- 
ing his incumbency). 

Legacy of Solomon Solis received. 

February 2, 1854 — Second Charity Dinner. 

February 5, 1854 — Judah Touro's legacy of |20,000 received. 

May 28, 1854 — Purchase of Seventh street school house 
authorized. 

October 3, 1854 — School removed to Seventh street. 

May 13, 1866 — Supplementary act passed by the Legislature 
admitting pupils of the Society into the Boys' and 
Girls' High School. 

Legacy of Rosanna Osterman received. 



134 HEBREW ED UCATIOX SOCIETY. 

October 28, 1867 — Maimonides College opened with gratu- 
itous services by Isaac Leeser, Marcus Jastrow, 
Sabato Morals and Aaron S. Bettelheim as instruc- 
tors. Subsequently with similar services from 
Geo. Jacobs and Hyman Polano. 

February 1, 1868 — Isaac Leeser died. 

1869 — First regular annual contribution received from the 
Charity Ball Association. 

1874 — Legacies of Isaac Leeser and Jacob Bamberger re- 
ceived. 

April 1, 1876 — Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Society's 
school celebrated at Concordia Hall, Callowhill 
near Fifth street. 

March 3, 1878— School Xo. 2 opened in synagogue building 
of B'nai Israel, Fifth and Catharine streets. 

September, 1878 — English instruction temporarily discontin- 
ued in Society's school. 

December 31, 1878 — School No. 2 removed from Fifth and 
Catharine streets to 516 South street. 

October 12, 1879 — School No. 3 opened at Marshall street 
and Girard avenue. 

December 28, 1879 — Richmond School (No. 4) opened at 624 
Wayne street. 

December 31, 1879 — School No. 2 removed to 417 Pine 
street. 

1880 — Abraham Adler (fifth President) died (during his in- 
cumbency). 

January 26, 1880 — School No. 3 removed to Fourth and Pop- 
lar streets. 

September 1, 1880 — Sewing school for girls opened in Ricii- 
mond School. 

March 13, 1881 — Revised By-Laws adopted. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 135 

May 1, 1881— School No. 3 removed to 872 N. Seventh 
street. 

June 6, 1881 — Scliool No. 1 temporarily removed to 872 N. 
Seventh street. 

November 14, 1881 — School re-opened at Seventh and Cal- 
lowhill streets, and School No. 3 consolidated with 
it. 

1882 — Memorial fund of Abraham Adler received from Mrs. 
Adler. 

September IG, 1883 — 2856-58 Lark street occupied by School 
No. 4, and industrial work for boys began in the 
building. 

1883 — Leeser Library catalogued by Cyrus Adler. 

Legacy of Mayer Arnold received. 

September 1, 1884 — School No. 2 removed to Fifth and Gas- 
kill streets. 

•June, 188G — Industrial School opened at Seventh and Cal- 
lowhill streets. 
Legacy of Mayer Gans received. 

1886 — Young Women's Union becomes branch of the Hebrew 
Education Society. 

1887 — Legacies of Abraham Sussman, Rachel Whitzstein and 
Rev. J. Frankel received. 

April 17, 1888 — School No. 2 removed to 316 S. Fourth street. 

January 31, 1889 — Sale of Seventh street school house ratified. 

February, 1889 — School No. 1 removed to 1204 Germantown 
avenue. 

February 2, 1891 — School No. 2 removed to 322 Bainbridge 
street. 

March, 1891 — English night school, trade school and Hebrew 
school opened at 322 Bainbridge street. 

September 22, 1891 — Corner stone of Touro Hall laid. 



136 HEBRE ir ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

November 27, 1891— Dedication of Touro Hall. 

December 14, 1891 — School No. 2, night school and trade 
school removed to Touro Hall. 

Legacy of Bertha Gans received. 

Legacy of Ellen Phillips received. 

September 1, 1892 — First monthly allotment received from 
the Baron de Hirsch Fund. 

1893 — September and October — University Extension Lec- 
tures. 

November, 1894 to January, 1895 — University Extension 
Lectures. 

Legacies of David Hoffman and Leopold Furtli received. 

April 19, 1886 — Young Women's Union formed an indepen- 
dent organization. 

Legacy of Solomon Gans received. 

1896 — First free synagogue service held in Touro Hall on 
Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur. 

January, 1897 — Rooms in Touro Hall granted to B'nai B'rith 
Manual Training School free of charge. 

October, 1897 — University Extension Lectures. 

Legacies of Simon Fleisher, Joseph Rosenbaum and 
Morris Sickels received. 

January, 1898 — University Extension Lectures. 

Free use of three rooms granted to Gratz College for its 
classes. 



APPENDIX I. 




FORMER SCHOOL HOUSE 
Seventh Street, bet. Cali.omhill and Wood. 



APPENDIX I. 

HEBREW SCHOOLS. 

School No. 1, Seventh and Wood Streets. 

In January, 1878, a change was effected in the manage- 
ment of the School, only one teacher in Hehrew, Mr. Hyman 
Polano, and one teacher in English, Miss Charity S. Cohen, 
were retained for a time. The English branches were dis- 
continued on June 28th of this year. 

Mr. Polano also taught a class at the Foster Home, be- 
ginning January 1, 1878 ; this school was discontinued on 
January 16, 1879. 

On January 1, 1881, Solomon Solis Colien was appointed 
to the position of Hebrew teacher in place of Hyman Polano, 
who had resigned. 

In January, 1881, a Fair was given by the Teachers' 
Association of the Hebrew Sunday-school, for the purpose of 
raising sufficient funds to repair the school house on Seventh 
street. 

The Treasurer of the Hebrew Education Society, Mr. 
Simon B. Fleisher, received a check for $2,274.80 from Mr. 
Jacob Muhr, who acted as Treasurer of the Fair. 

The building was renovated at a cost of five thousand 
dollars over and above the amount received from the Teach- 
ers' Association, for which amount a mortgage on the build- 
ing was taken. One thousand dollars of this had been paid 
off previous to its sale to Messrs. Roig & Langsdorf 

The building was re-dedicated on November 13, 1881, 
just twenty-five years after the first dedication, which took 
place on November 12, 1856. Rev. S. Morals delivered the 
opening prayer and Rev. Dr. M. Jastrow delivered an ad- 



1 40 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

dress, the services were ended by the readmg of the afternoon 
prayers by the Rev. S. Morals. 

On Monday, .June 6, 1881, this school was temporarily 
removed to 872 N. Seventh street. 

The building at Seventh and Wood streets, having been 
altered and improved, was re-opened for school purposes on 
the 14th of November following. 

On the first of June, 1882, this school and the one held 
at 872 N. Seventh street, were consolidated. 

In April, 1887, the Trade School was opened, in which 
garment making and cutting, cigar making and carpentering 
were taught. 

In February, 1889, this building having been sold, the 
Hebrew school was removed to 1204 Germantown avenue, 
where it is now located. On January 1, 1891, Miss Evelyn 
Bomeisler succeeded Henry S. Morals as teacher. She is the 
present incumbent. 



School No. 2, Fifth and Catharine Streets. 

On Sunday, March 3, 1878, Hebrew School No. 2 was 
opened in the Synagogue Building (known as the Holland 
Schule), Fifth and Catharine streets, with Marcus E. Lam as 
the instructor. 

On December 31st the school was removed to 516 South 
street, on December 31, 1879 to 417 Pine street, on Septem- 
ber t, 1884 it was removed to Dramatic Hall, Fifth and Gas- 
kill streets ; this building has since been altered and is now 
the Synagogue of the Congregation Emunath Israel Oheb 
Shalom. 

On April 17, 1888, removed to 316 S. Fourth street, on 
February 2, 1891 to 322 Bainbridge street, and on December 
14th of the same year the first session of the Hebrew school 
was held in Touro Hall, Tenth and Carpenter streets, where 
it is permanently located. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 141 

School No. 3, Girard Avenue and Marshall Street. 

October 12, 1879, School No. 3 was opened at the N. W. 
cor. Marshall street and Girard avenue, with Cyrus Adler as 
the teacher. 

On January 2G, 1880, the school was removed to the N. 
E. cor. Fourth and Poplar streets. April 26, 1880, Henry S. 
Morals was chosen as teacher of this school, in place of Cyrus 
Adler, who took charge of that in Wayne street. 

May 1, 1881, the school was removed to 872 N. Seventh 
street, whence it was subsequently merged with School No. 
1 at Seventh and Callowhill streets. 

School No. 4, 624 Wayne Street. 

On December 28, 1879, a school was opened at 624 
Wayne street, in the district of Richmond, with Dr. H. Max 
Gerstenkranz as instructor. 

On April 26, 1880, Cyrus Adler was chosen as teacher 
for the Wayne street school. 

On Sunday afternoon, September 16, 1883, the school 
house at 2656-58 Lark street was dedicated. In this build- 
ing, in June, 1885, was undertaken the first instruction in 
various branches of trades by the Society. 

Carpentering, cigar making, manufacturing picture- 
frames and dressmaking were taught. 

On the 30th of December, 1883, Cyrus Adler resigned 
and was succeeded by Moses De Ford. 

March 1, 1888, C. D. Spivak became teacher in Lark 
street school, he was succeeded in February, 1891, by George 
S. Seldes, who in turn was succeeded on September 1, 1892, by 
Isaac Husik. The latter resigned in December, 1898, and 
was succeeded by Hyman Grabosk}^ who remains in charge 
at the present time. 

Sewing School. 
The Sewing School at 624 Wayne street was opened in 



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HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 143 

October, 1880, by Mrs. A. C. Van Beil, assisted by Mrs. 
Simeon H. Newhouse (wlio became its first Superintendent), 
Miss Simha C. Peixotto, Miss Mawson, Mrs. Joseph Herzog of 
New York, and D. Sulzberger of the Society. 

Miss Rose Kauffman (Mrs. Moses Feustman) succeeded 
Mrs. Newhouse in December, 1881, and retained the position 
a short time and was succeeded by Mrs. Eva Coons at the 
opening of the school, October, 1882, who retained the posi- 
tion until 1888. 

The report for the year ending March 3, 1884, was made 
by Miss Tinie Feustman (Mrs. Edward Goldstein), Acting 
Superintendent, owing to the absence of Mrs. Coons. 

In the fall of 1888 Miss Hennie May (Mrs. Isaac Kahn) 
succeeded Mi's. Coons, and on the opening of the scbool, 
November 3, 1881, became Superintendent. The school hav- 
ing been opened by Mrs. Horace A. Nathans, who visited it 
each Sunday morning during that term. 

Until this time the Sewing School had been conducted 
entirely by volunteer teachers and superintendents. The 
teachers in dress making and garment drafting were paid. 

In the report for the year ending March 8, 1891, we note 
the following : " The Sewing School in Lark street is now 
conducted by two young girls who were former pupils, and 
who have been taught dress making and cutting in the gar- 
ment drafting department, which has been in operation since 
last May (1890)." 

It was found impracticable to continue the school in this 
manner, the children not having the proper respect for their 
teachers, who were unable to enforce discipline and who 
could not retain the attendance as did the ladies who former- 
1}^ were the instructors; in consequence of this it was 
discontinued. 

The following ladies were volunteer teachers during its 
existence. 

SUPERINTENDENTS, ACTING SUPERINTENDENTS AND TEACHERS. 

Mrs. Simeon H. Newhouse, Mrs. Eva Coons, Mrs. Horace 



144 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

A. Nathans, Misses Celia Adler, Rose Kauffman, Tinie Feust- 
man, Hennie May and Celia Hirshler ; Misses Eckerson, 
Annie Jastrovv, Minnie Rowe, Josephine Leberman, Leah 
Abeles, Salvena Shloss, Katinka Mansbach, Bertha Kohn, 
Ella Frank, Alice Kaufman, Bertha Guggenheimer, Fannie 
Allen, Florrie Shloss and Cora Hirshler. 

General Night School. 

March, 1891, a General Night School was opened at 322 
Bainbridge street, with Bernard Harris and Amelia J. 
Allen as the teachers. It increased in size so rapidly that it 
soon required two additional teachers. This school was re- 
moved into the new building at Touro Hall on December 14, 
1891, and is there permanently established under guidance 
of a corps of nine teachers. Besides the elementary branches 
of English there are here taught the following : To women 
and girls, dress making and millinery ; to men and boys, 
cigar making, garment cutting, etc., and to both sexes, type- 
writing and stenography. 

The teaching of various other industries and trades such 
as carpentering, tin working, upholstering, iron work, etc., 
had at different times been introduced in this school, but 
were necessarily abandoned by reason of a lack of adequate 
attendance. 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 145 

List of Teachers Engaged at Various Times in the 
Schools of the Hebrew Education Society. 

night school. 

Bernard Harris, Amelia J. Allen 

Augusta Selig, Evelyn Bomeisler, 

Florence Kohn, Rosa Rosenstein, 

Jennie Charskey, Ida Casseras, 

CoRiNNE B. Arnold, Mary Goldstein, 

Ella Harris, Kate Rosenstein, 

Mabel Lyons, Cecelia Sundheim, 

Gerson Levy, Emma Brylawski, 

Thomas Seltzer, Sarah Levin, 

Samuel M. Israeli, Edward Nathan. 

shorthand and typewriting. 
Eva Halpern, Rebecca Slobodkin. 

kindergarten. 

Diana Hirschler, Mary Goldstein, 

Emma Brylawski. 

night school — dressmaking. 

Mrs. Block, Bella Blumenthal, 

Hannah Bachrach, Bella Bachenheimer, 

Celia Abrahams, Gertrude Abrahams, 

Sophia Benedick, Jeanette Kaufman, 

Theresa Reis, Etta Levy, 

Mrs. a. J. CoRTissoz. 

millinery. 
Kate Gottlieb, Rosalie Hertzstein, 

TiLLIE WOLFLE, FLORENCE R. ShILL. 

garment cutting. 

Adolph Lowenthal, Henry Armhold, 

Max Stechert, 



146 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SO CIET Y. 

DRAWING. 

Morris Sommers. 

carpentering. 

H. Elsner, Jacob Gurwich, 

Solomon Friedman, M. E. Arnold, 

Henry Schwa lm, J. Hindin, 

Con. Brooks. 

CIGAR MAKINCi. 

H. Morris, Hart, 

L. HiLLERSOHN, LOUIS FrIEDMAN, 

Abraham Koshland. 

upholstering. 
Aaron Braunstein. 

tinsmithing. 
B. Goldstein, John Bessmertnev. 

NIGHT SCHOOL LARK STREET. 

Samuel Deinard. A. J. Cortissoz. 

higher hebrew night school. 

Joseph Magil. 



APPENDIX II. 



APPENDIX II. 



DONATIONS. 
For the Year Ending March 25, 1879. 



Jacob Loeb . . 
Lucien Moss . . . 
Mayer Sulzberger 
Moses A. Dropsie. 
Abraham Adler . 
Louis Gerstley . . 
Charles J. Cohen. 
Aaron Lichten. . 



!?100 Isaac Rosskam 25 

50 Levi Mayer 25 

50 licon Berg 25 

50 Marks Brothers 25 

50 Isaac Sailer 10 

50 Henry Friedberger 10 

50 Abraham Kahu 10 

50 

$580 



CONTRIBUTORS TO CATALOGUE FUND. 



H. Friedberger 
Louis E. Levy 
Isaac Sailer . 
Aaron Lichten 
M. C. Lichten 
D. Sulzberger. 
Levi Mayer . 
Jacob Muhr . 
Jacob Sulzberger 
Louis M. Frank 
Wm. Gerstley . 
S. B. Fleisher . 
Isaac Rosskam. 



Reported March 10, 1883. 



$10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 



S. Sternberger 10 

Henry Mitchell 5 

George Wiener . 5 

$150 

All members of the Board of 
Officers, and from the Execu- 
tors of the Leeser Estate 

Hezekiah W. Arnold 10 

Wm. B. Hackeuburg 10 

Mayer Sulzberger 10 

$180 



In the Treasurer's Report for the year ending March 9, 
1884, we note the following contributions to the fund for the 
purchase of the Lark street building : 



Rappaport Benevolent As- 
sociation $100 00 

Teachers' Association He- 
brew Sunday School 
Society 100 00 

Isaac Sailer 100 00 



Isaac Rosskam 


50 00 


Samuel Sternberger . . 


50 00 


Moses A Dropsie. . . . 


50 00 


Dr. E. Morwitz 


50 00 


S. B. Fleisher 


25 00 


A. M. Frechie 


25 00 



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HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Henry Gerstley 

Levi Mayer 

Jacob Muhr . 

Philip Lewiu 

Simon Fleisher. . . 

Alexander Fleisher. 

Aaron Lichten 

Strouse, Loeb & Co. 

M. Guggenheim 

Mayer Sulzberger. . . . 

Loeb Brothers 

Louis Gerstley 

A. E. Massman & Co. . . 

Leon Berg 

Mrs. M. Fleisher 

Samuel Nathan 

D'Israeli Literary Associa- 
tioD 

Charles J. Cohen 

Hirsh & Brother 

From a fair given by Hat- 
tie Allmau, Blanche 
Allman and Lydia 
Rains . . . 

Abraham Kahn 

Louis E. Lev.\ 

Lucieu Moss . 

Mayer Frank. . 

George Wieuer. 

D. Sulzberger 

A. M. Laugfeld 

B. Lowenstein. 
Charles Bloomingdale 
Henry Friedberger. 
Louis Lang . 
Emanuel Schwerin 
Wm. B. Hackenburg. 
L. Rowe & Co 
B. W. Fleisher. 

I. Kohn 

Louis M. Frank . 
M. M. Newman 
Jacob Sulzberger. 
M. H. Pulaski . . 
William Gerstley 
S. & M. Liveright 
Loeb & Schoenfelt 



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M. C. Lichten 

Joseph Stern 

A. B. Kirsehbaum .... 

Jonas Langfeld 

Lazarus Mayer 

Miss Ellen Phillips. . . . 
Mrs. Henry Cohen. . . . 
Mrs. David H. Solis . . . 
Mrs. Abraham S. Wolf. . 

Mrs. Eva Wolf. 

Mrs. Isabella Louer . . . 
Miss Isabel E. Cohen. . . 
Miss Blanche Telle)- . . . 
Misses Guggenheimer . . 

M. Lazarus 

Jacob Miller 

Heury M. Rosenbaum 

M. H. Lichten 

Herman Weillei- .... 

I. M. Lang 

Louis Pollock 

M. Bamberger 

Herman Heller 

H. S. Friedman . . 
Hanauer, Kohu & Co. . . 
Henry S. Louchheim. . 
Morris Newburger ... 
Pfaelzer Bros. & Co. . 
Solomon Blumeuthal. . . 

H. S. Frauk 

Marks Goodman 

Henry L. Strouse ... 
Morris Dauneubaum. . . 

Isidore Birgr 

Marcus Stern ... 

David Teller 

Joseph Herman (Houtz- 

dale) 

Edwin Arnold 

Cash, K, B. & Co 

Cash. 

Mrs. Simon Liveright . . 

A. Danneubaum 

Louis Wolf 

B. Kopf 

Cash, (S. &M.) 



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151 



SUBSCRirTIONS TO INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FUND. 



March 8, 1885. 



2228 



Moses A. Dropsie. . . . 

Rosskam, Gerstley & Co 

Samuel Steruberger 

Louis E. Levy . . 

Mrs. M. Fleisher, 
Green street . . 

Isaac Sailer . . 

S. B. Fleisher . . 

A. E. Massmaii, Pros 
Co 

M. Guggenheim . 

Leon Berg. . . 

Lucien'Moss. . . 

Charles. J. Cohen 

Mrs. Henry Cohen. 

Abr. Kahn 

Hirsh Brother?*. 

Joseph Myers . 

Nathan Strouse . 

Mrs. Abr. S. Wolf 

Isidore Coons. . . 

Levi Mayer . . . 

Joseph Rosen baum 

Philip Lewiu. . . 

Simon Fleisher. . 

Ed. L. Rothschild 

Richmond Mission 

Mrs. Amelia Hess, in 
memory of her hus- 
band 

Simon Loeb 

D. Sulzberger 

Wolf'&Co 

Jonas Langfeld 

Mr. and Mrs. I. Hyneman 

Sol. Blumenthal 

Alfred C. Hirsh 

Edward Loeb 

Max Liveright 

Miss Louisa Gratz .... 

Miss Elizabeth Graiz. 

Prof. Angelo Heilprin . . 

Simon Liveright 

Joshua Lodge, No. 23, 
I. O. B. B 



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Aug. B. Loeb 

Leo Loeb 

Louis Sailer 

David M. Piza, N. Y. . 

A. Lichten 

Lazarus Mayer 

Alexander Fleisher. . . . 

Jeshurun Lodge, No. 59, 
I. O. B. B 

Garrick Club 

Penrose Fleisher . 

George Wiener 

Pfaeizer Bros. & Co. 

Miss Ellen Phillips. . . . 

iMiss Emily Phillips . . 

M. M. Newman 

Female Hebrew Benevo- 
lent Society 

Cash, F. M 

Mr. and Mrs. Mayer liOuer 

Alexander Hexter, 

Samuel Krieger . 

Cash 

Meyer Frank. 

Col. I. May. . . 

Miss Eleanor Samuel 

J. Bunford Samuels 

Livorno 

Wm. Moss, M.D. . 

Mrs. E 



Miss Julia L. Moss. 
Miss Rebecca ]Mo?s. 
Sol. Rothschild. . . 
John Samuels . . 
Kohn, Adler & Co . 
Miss Emily Phillips 
Miss Ellen Phillips. 
Edward Lewin. . . 
Mrs. David Elias. . 
H. F. Bachman . 
B. W. Fleisher. 
Sarah Polack. . . . 
Miss Emily Solis. 
David H. Solis, Jr . 
Dr. A. S. Isaacs, N. Y 



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A. M. Laugfeld 


5 00 


M. H. Lichteu 


5 00 


H. S. Friedman 


5 00 


H. M. Frank 


5 00 


Solomon Teller. . 


5 00 


David Teller . . 


5 00 


Raphael Teller. 


5 00 


Jacob Wiener 


5 00 


Abr. Wolf 


5 00 


B. F Greenewald . . 


5 00 


Jacob Miller 


5 00 


Morris Liveright 


5 00 


A. M. Kohii . . . . 


5 00 


S. Kohn 


5 00 


L. L. & Co 


5 00 


Anton Iglauer 


5 00 


Herman Jonas 


5 00 


Mr. Trieste, per Dr. Jas- 




trow 


5 00 


Mrs. Eva Wolf 


5 00 


Adolph Hyman 


5 00 


Myers & Appel 


5 00 


Samuel Nathan 


5 00 


Mrs. Samuel Nathan. . 


5 00 


Morris Newburger .... 


5 00 



Henry INIyers 

Myer M.yers . . 
J. J. Hagedoru. 
H. Heller 

Benj. F. Bloomingdale 
Sol. Thanhauser . . . 
Wm. Lichten . . 
Moses Espen. . . 
Miss Ella Jacobs. . . 
Armand Dalsemer . 
Rev. N. Rosenau. . 
Mrs. C. F. Bachman . 
David Ettinger. . . 
Mrs. Coruelia Kahn . 
Raphael Green. . . 

M. Roman 

Sigmund Leerburger. 
Miss Rebecca Jacobs . 
Mark Hassler .... 
Simon Hassler .... 
Miss Simha C. Peixott 
H. B. Sommer . . . 

Mrs. H. J 

Miss Nina Morals . 



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11,250 00 



DONATIONS. 
March 14, 1886. 



Isidore Coous 


1200 00 


Moses A. Dropsie 


75 00 


Louis Gerstley 


60 00 


Mrs. Mayer Gans 


50 00 


Samuel Stern berger . 


50 00 


Isaac Ro^skam 


50 00 


M. Bamberger 


25 00 


Rappaport Benevolent As- 




sociation 


25 00 


Marks Brothers 


25 00 


Nathan Strouse 


25 00 


Isaac Sailer 


25 00 


A. E. Massman 


25 00 


Simon B. Fleisher . 


25 00 


Abraham Kahn 


25 00 


Loeb Brothers 


25 00 


H. Muhr's Sons . . 


25 00 


Strouse, Loeb & Co. . . . 


25 00 



Solomon Gans . . 
Mayer Sulzberger . 
Hirsh Brothers. . 
M. Guggenheim . . 
Miss Ellen Phillips. 
Miss Emily Phillips 
Mrs. Henry Cohen. 
Joseph Fels .... 
Philip Lewin 
M. Fleisher .... 
B. W. Fleisher. . 
Mrs. Abraham Adler 
Levi Mayer . . 

Wolf & Co 

Sulzberger & Co . . 
Andrew Kaas . 
Henry Gerstley . . 
William Gerstley . 



25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
30 00 
20 00 
20 00 
17 38 
15 00 
15 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



153 



Ed. L. Rothschild .... 10 00 

Louis Eschuer 10 00 

Henry S. Frank 10 00 

Mrs. Leon Berg 10 00 

Louis E. Levy 10 00 

Louis Sailer 10 00 

L. Bamberger 10 00 

Marx B. Loeb 10 00 

Simon Loeb .... 10 00 

Wm. B. Haekenburg. . . 10 00 

M. W. Lipper 10 00 

M. M. Newman 10 00 

Max Liveright 10 Ou 

vSimon Liveright 10 00 

Female Hebrew Benevo- 
lent Society 10 00 

Mrs. Abraham S. Wolf. . 10 00 

Lazarus Mayer 10 00 

M. Dannenbaum 10 00 

Pfaelzer Brothers & Co . . 10 00 

Simon Fleisher 10 00 

Joseph Loeb 5 00 

Dora Trieste 5 00 

Leopold Hirsh 5 00 



Pen. Fleisher 5 00 

L. N. Fleisher 5 00 

B. F. Greeuewald .... 5 00 

Alex. Fleisher 5 00 

S. Simon & Co 5 00 

Morris Liveright o 00 

H. M. Frank 5 00 

J. J. Hagedorn 5 00 

H. S. Friedman 5 00 

Mayer Frank 5 00 

Isaac May 5 00 

Bernard Selig 5 00 

Myers & Apple 5 00 

Mrs. Eva Wolf 5 00 

Chas. Weinman . . . 5 GO 

Sol. L. Haas 5 00 

Herman Heller . . 5 00 

Wm. Jones 5 00 

Sol. Blumenthal 5 00 

H. B. Blumenthal ... 5 00 

Samuel Hexter 5 00 

A. M. Langfeld 5 00 

Rev. N. Rosenau 2 00 



DONATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL FUND. 



March 13, 1887. 



Isidore Coons 

Strouse, Loeb & Co. . . . 
Snellenburg tt Co . . . . 
Bill menthal Brothers & Co 
Liveright, Greenewald & 

Co 

Fleisher Brothers ... 
Frank Brothers & Co. . . 
Miss Ellen Phillips. . 
Miss Emily Phillips . 

Levi Mayer 

Isaac RosskAm 

Joseph Goldsmith & Co . 
Hexter Brothers . . 
Goldstein, Friedman & Co 
CJoodman Brothers. . 
A. Bachrach & Co . . . . 
A. B. Kirschbaum & Co . 
Kohn, Rosenheim & Co. . 



SlOO 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


55 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 



S. Leopold & Brother 
Joseph Netter & Co. 
ISloses A. Dropsie 
Jacob Muhr . . 
S. Sternberger . 
S. B. Fleisher . 
Louis Eschuer . 
Isaac Sailer . . 
Philip Lewiu. . 
Ed. L. Rothschild. 
Marks Brothers 
Solomon Gans . 
Aaron Lichten. 
Joseph Fels . . 
Richmond Ind's'l 
Chas. Klein & Co. 
Lisberger & Wise. 
D. Meyers & Co 
Schloss & Loeb. 





50 


00 




50 00 




50 00 




50 


00 




25 


00 




25 


00 




25 


00 




25 00 




25 00 




25 


00 




25 


00 




25 


00 




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25 


00 


hool 


. 25 


00 




25 


00 




25 


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25 


00 




25 


00 



154 



HEBREW EDUCA TION SOCIETY. 



Louis E. Levy. . . . 
Shoneman Brothers 
Joseph Louchheim. . 
Mrs. Meyer Gaus. . . 
Mayer Sulzberger . . 
Mrs. H. A. Nathans . 
Espen Brothers . . 
M. Guggenheim 
Hirsh ct Brothers . . 
Herman Heller . . 
L. Bamberger & Co. 
Mrs. Henry Cohen. . 
Grace Aguilar Se\\ 

School 

Moyer Fleisher. . . . 
Grace Aguilar Lit. Society 
Pfaelzcr Brothers & Co. . 



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25 00 August B. Loeb . 

2o 00 Edward Loeb . 

25 00 Louis Sailer . . . 

25 00 Andrew Kaas . . 

25 00 Mrs. Leon Berg 

25 00 Mrs. A. S. Wolf . 

25 00 Lazarus Mayer. . 

25 00 B. W. Fleisher. . 

25 00 Mark Schwartz 

20 00 A. E. Ma<smau 

20 00 A. Hexter . . . 

20 00 I)a\id Teller 

Leopold Hirsh. . 

15 00 Solomon Teller. . 

15 00 David Solis Cohen 

14 00 Proceeds of Fair . 

10 CO Sarah Luvenson . 



10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


5 00 


5 OO 


5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


3 00 


1 80 



DONATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL FUND. 
March 11, 1888. 



Miss Ellen Phillips . 5^ !!!l 


1100 00 


Miss Emily Phillips . . . 


50 00 


Isaac Rosskam 


75 00 


Isidore Coons 


50 00 


Moses A. Dropsie .... 


50 00 


Jacob Muhr 


50 00 


Philip Lewin 


25 00 


Live right, Greenewald & 




Co 


25 00 


N. Snellen burg & Co. . . 


25 00 


Louis Gerstley 


25 00 


Samuel Stern berger 


25 00 


Morris Newburger. 


25 00 


Nathan Strouse 


25 00 


St rouse, Loeb & Co. 


25 00 


Isaac Sailer 


25 00 


Louis Eschner 


25 00 


Joseph Fels ... 


25 00 


Simon Fleisher 


25 00 


Hanauer, Kohn & Co. 


25 00 


Simon B. Fleisher . 


25 00 


Aaron Lichten 


25 00 


Marks Brothers 


25 00 


L. Bamberger 


25 00 


Solomon Gaus 


25 00 


Mayer Sulzberger .... 


25 00 



Espen Brothers . 
]Max Bamberger . 
^L Guggenheim 
Hirsh & Brother. 
]\Irs. Bertha Gaus 
Fleisher Brothers 
Mrs. Abraham S. Wolf, 
]Mrs. Dora Trieste (in 

memory of her son, 

Sidney) . . . 
Louis Sailer 
Moyer Fleisher. 
Simon Loeb . 
Louis Reinheinier 
Lissburger & Wisc; 
S. Wilson & Sou . . 
Meyer Seidenbach 
Wm. B. Haekenburg 
Edward Loeb .... 
Pfaelzer Brothers & Co, 
Mrs. Leon Berg . . . 
Andrew Kaas ... 
B. W. Fleisher. . . . 
P'rauk Brothers & Co. 

Aarou Gans 

Jacob Miller & Sou. 



25 00 
25 00 
25 OO 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
20 00 



20 oa 

15 00 
15 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 GO 
10 00 



HEBIiEW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



155 



A. B. Kirschbauiii 
Levi Mayer 
D. Baeharaeh 

D. ]Myers 

Julius Loeb . 

R. Teller 

H. Heller . . 
Hirsh, Frank & 'Jo. 
Charles Meyers. 
Daniel JNIeyers . . 
H. B. Blumenthal 
Sol. Blumenthal. 

A. M. Laugfekl . . 
Augustus R. Reger. 

B. Selig .... 
Henry M. Reis. 
Sol. L. Haas . . 
Henry ^I. Frank 
Daniel Myers, Jr 
Chas. Goodnaau 



10 00 
10 00 



00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 



Samuel Fishleder .... 


5 00 


Shonemau Brothers & Co. 


5 00 


Joseph Netter & Co . . 
Chas. Stein 


5 00 
5 00 


Eugene Loeb 

Joseph A. Louchheim 


5 00 
5 00 


Cash 


5 00 


Cora Hirshkr 1 

Sarah Laveiison . . ) 


3 00 


M. Goldsmith 


2 00 


Philip Fleishner 


2 00 


S. Lehman 


2 00 


I. C. Levi 


1 00 


B. Baruch 


1 00 


Alfred A. INIarcus, one 
dozen Daily Prayer. 
Books. 




Jos. Fels, Box Laundry 

Soap. 
Anonymous, Norman and 

Courtney prizes . . . 


10 00 



DONATIONS TO INDUSTRIAL FUND. 



^[ARCH 10, 1889. 



Miss Ellen Phillips. . . . 
Miss Emily Phillips, 175] 



Prize in Carpen 
ter Shop. . . . 

Isaac Rosskam. 

Isidor Coons. . . 

Moses A. Dropsie 

H. Muhr's Sons . 

Joseph Fels 

H. Gerstley . 

Louis Eschner. . 

Isaac Sailer . . 

Philip Lewin 

Louis E. Levy . . . 

Marks Brothers 

Moyer Fleisher. . . 

Simon B, Fleisher 

Mayer Sulzberger. 

Samuel Sternberger 

Nathan Strouse . . 

Strouse, Loeb & Co. 

Solomon Gans . . . 

Simon Fleisher. . 



20 J 



$100 00 

95 00 

50 00 
50 00 
50 00 
50 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 



Hanauer, Kohn & Co . . 25 00 
Liveright, Greeuewald & 

Co 25 00 

Morris Nevvburger & Sons. 25 00 
Espen Brothers. . . .25 00 

Hirsh & Brother . . 25 00 

Leopold Bamberger . . 25 00 

Max Bamberger 25 00 

M. Guggenheim 25 00 

Mrs. Bertha Gans . . 25 00 

N. Suellenburg & Co. 25 00 

Penrose Fleisher . 15 00 

Jacob Miller & Sous ... 15 00 
Through Miss Esther 
Baum for the Indus- 
trial Schools from the 
following little girls : 
Gertie Reis, Hi Ida Blu- 
menthal , Carrie Simon , 
Addie Stern, Rena 
Wolf, Selma Blumen- 
thal, Hortense Wolf 
and Blanche Schwartz 11 50 

B. Labe 10 00 



156 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 



Daniel Meyers, Jr . . . . 10 00 

H. S. Frank . . 10 00 

Sol. L. Haas 10 00 

M. Frank 10 00 

Hexter Brothers 10 00 

Loeb & Louchheirn 10 00 

M. B. Loeb 10 00 

August B. Loeb . 10 00 

W. B. Hackeuburg . . 10 00 

Pfaelzer Brothers & Co. 10 00 

Blum Brothers 10 00 

B. W. Fleisher 10 00 

Andrew Kaas 10 00 

Mrs. Abr. S. Wolf ... 10 00 

Lueien Moss 10 00 

H. B. Blumenthal . . 5 00 

D. Myers 5 00 

Henry M. Reis 5 00 

B. Seiig 5 00 



SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BUILDING FUND, TOURO HALL. 
S. W. Cor. Tenth and Carpenter Streets. 



Jos. C. Greenewald 
Charles Shoneman. 

A. Hexter 

Dan. Meyers. . 
Jos. Koch ... 
S. Fishleder . 
J. S. Frank . . . 
Klein, Putzel & Co. 
Leopold Hirsh . . 
David Klein . . . 
L. Ileinheimer. . 
Isaac M. Lang . 
H. Weiller. . . . 
Herman Heller. . 
Simon Loeb . . . 
Goldsmith & Co . 

Cash 

Cash 



5 00 


5 00 


5 GO 


5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


.5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


5 00 


5 GO 


5 GO 


5 00 


5 00 


2 GO 


2 00 


2 00 



March 13, 1892. 



M(jses A. Dropsie . 
Miss Ellen Phillips 
Jacob Muhr .... 
Moyer Fleisher. . 
Isaac Rosskam. . 
Louis Eschner 
Simon Fleisher. . 
Louis Gerstley . . 
Kohn, Adler & Co 
Sam'l Sternberger 
Marks Brothers. . 
Young Women's U 
Solomon Gans . . 
Elias Wolf & Sons 
Levi Mayer . . . 
Isaac Sailer . . . 
Isidor Coons . . 
Wm. Gerstley , . 
Morris Pfaelzer . 
Penrose Fleisher . 
Joseph Rosenbaum 
Benj. W. Fleisher 
Mrs. Bertha Gatis 



,500 GO Mason Hirsh 

,000 00 Henry Hirsh 

,000 00 Simon B. Fleisher .... 

750 GO Andrew Kaas 

500 GO Mayer Sulzberger .... 

500 GO Sam'l Suellenburg .... 

500 GO Wm. B. Hackenburg. . 

500 GO Mr. and Mrs. Simon Pfael- 

600 GO zer 

500 GO Mrs. H. A. Nathans . . 

500 00 Aaron Lichten 

500 00 Hagedoru & Merz . . 

500 GO Mr. and Mrs. Max Bam- 

300 GO berger 

250 00 Morris Dauneubaum. . . 

250 00 Espen Brothers 

250 GO Jos. Louchheim 

250 GO Wolf & Co 

250 GO Jos. J. Snellenburg. , . 

250 GO Philip Lewin 

250 GO Mr. and Mrs. Simon Live- 

250 GO right 

260 GO Joseph Fels 



250 GO 


250 00 


250 GO 


250 GO 


250 00 


250 00 


200 00 


200 GO 


200 00 


200 GO 


200 00 


200 GO 


200 00 


200 GO 


200 GO 


200 GO 


200 00 


150 GO 


150 GO 


100 GO 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



157 



D. Sulzberger . . 
Louis E. Levy 
Simou Loeb . . . 
Louis Sailer . . 
Heury Gerstley 
David Teller . 
Mrs. Abraham S. Wolf. 
Horace Moses 
Euail CaufFmau 
Mrs. H. Dan lien bau in 
H. A. Jeitles .... 
Samuel S. Fels. . . 
Solomon Teller. . . 
Leopold Hirsh. . . 
Emanuel Springer . 
James M. Jeitles. . 
Henry Rothschild . 
H. B. Blumenthal 
Mrs. Levi Strouse . 
Adam Gimbel . . . 
Karl Straus .... 
Alfred C. Hirsh . . 
Mrs. Z. L. Eisner. . 
Mrs. A. E. Massman 

A. M. Frechie . . . 
I. Herzberg ... 

B. Labe & Son. . . 
Leopold Bamberger . 
Jacob Miller Sons & Co. 
Mrs. Minnie K. Arnold 
Mrs. Jacob Loeb 
Walter 8. Berg. 
I. Behal & Sons 
Isaac Blum. . . 
Gabriel Blum. . 
Ralph Blum . . 
Max Liveright. 
Louis Fleisher . 
Mrs. Moses Nathan 
Marx B. Loeb. . 
Mrs. Henry S. Frar 
Mayer Frank. . . 
Mrs. Abr. Adler . 
Mayer Seidenbach 
Theresa Seidenbach 
Henry Seidenbach. 
Joseph Koch. . 
Simon Kohn. . 



100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 



Cash (Dr. M.) . 
Phiz Muhr. . . 
Henry M. Reis. 
Raphael Teller. 
Sol. Blumenthal 
Stern & Brothers 
Herman Jonas 
Nathan Klein . 
W. S. & M. Lieber 
Jos. R. Teller 
M. Powder maker 
Samuel Hexter. 
Leo Loeb. . . . 
Daniel Strouse. 
Nathan Strouse 
Isidor Sultzbach 
Mrs. M. Friedenwald 

S. K. Louchheim, 
W. C. Louchheim, 
J. H. Louchheim, 
At Silver Wedding 

of Parents, 
S. L. Bloch .... 
Morris Liveright . 
Mrs. Alex Fleisher 
Leopold Loeb & Co. 
David HofTman . . 
Wm. Lichten & Co. 
J. S. Rosengarten . 
Landauer & Strauss 
Mrs. R. P. Wedelle. 
Eli Wineland . . . 
Mayer, Sou & Co. . 
Mrs. Leon Berg, 

York 

Chas. Weinman & Co 
Chas. Shoneman 
Louis Shoneman 
Edwin Arnold . 
H. M. Frank. . 
E. Benswanger. 
Master Albert Arnold 
S. Zvveighaft. . . . 
Jacob Wiener . 

A. Bacharach . . 
Zineman & Brothers 
H. S. Friedman . . 
Simon Abeles . . . 

B. Lowenstein. . . 



100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 
100 (JO 
100 00 
100 oo 
100 00 
100 00 
100 00 



100 00 



New 



100 00 


75 00 


75 00 


75 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


60 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 


50 00 



158 



ininUEW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Kayser & Alliiiau 
Greeuewald & Co 
E. Silbersteiu . . 
Chas. H. Veudig. 
Marc Sternberg . 
Solomon Asher 
J. M. Eugel . . 
Morris May . . 
H. S. Louchheim 
Chas. Elias . . . 
Henry L. Strouse 
L. Fiaeheuheinier 
Jac<)li Tuck. . . . 
Mark Schwartz . 
David Stern, New York 
Adam Baum «fe Son . . 
Kev. Dr. Jos. Kraiiskopf 
Benj. ]Mayer . . . 
H. M. Rosen baum 
Chas. Goodman 
Solomon Miller. 
Isaac H. Kahu. 
Frank Teller. . 
Ijewis Rowe . . 
Ludwig M. Leberman 
A. Herzberg . . 
S. Kirschbaum. . 
D. Kirschbaum . 
Abe Hirt-h ... 
D. Hirsh. . . 
Saiuuel Kind . . 
S. Leopold & Sons 
Jacob S. Frank. . 
Jacob Stem . . . 
Friedoliue Mayer. 
Mrs. Mina May . 
Mrs. Louis Walker 
W. M. Steppacher 
Mrs. Elvira N. Solis 
Miss Amelia Mayer 
David H. Solis 
Daniel Myers 
L. Rosenberg 
O.stlieimer Brothers 
C. (). Nathans . 
A. Reinheimer. 
Samuel Cohen . 
Krieger Brothers 



50 00 


Jos. Marschuetz 




25 00 


50 00 


Dr. L. W. Steinbach. . 


25 00 


50 00 


J()sei)h Loeb ... 


25 00 


5(» 00 


Herman Weiller . . 


25 00 


50 00 


Strouse, Rothschild & i 


Jo. 25 00 


50 00 


Miss Mathilda Kahn. . 


25 00 


50 00 


Miss Fredora Kahn . . 


25 00 


50 00 


L. H. Vendig .... 


25 00 


50 00 


Julius Sondheim . 


25 00 


50 00 


Morris Rosenberg . . 


25 00 


50 00 


A. I. Ufl'enheimer . . 


25 00 


50 00 


S. Bacharach 


25 00 


50 00 


Alkus Brothers & Co. 


25 00 


50 00 


Rev. Dr. H. Iliowizi. 


25 00 


50 00 


Ignatz Klein 


25 00 


50 00 


M. Roseiibaum. . . . 


25 00 


50 00 


Mayer Strouse . . . . 


25 00 


50 00 


Joseph Loeb 


25 00 


50 00 


John Netter 


25 00 


50 00 


Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr 


25 00 


50 00 


Furth & Singer . . . 


25 00 


50 00 


B. Abeles 


25 00 


50 00 


Jos. E. Sulzberger . 


25 00 


50 00 


I. Steppacher . . . 


25 00 


50 00 


B. F. Green wald. . . 


25 00 


50 00 


B. Selig 


25 00 


50 00 


ISIorris Jaretzky 




25 00 


50 00 


Sylvan Dalsimer. 




25 00 


50 00 


Jacob Henly. . 




25 00 


50 00 


M. A. Kautt'inau. 




25 00 


50 00 


Sol. Selig. . . . 




25 00 


40 00 


Joseph Myers. . 




25 00 


25 00 


Charles J. Cohen 




25 00 


25 00 


Louis Teller . . 




25 00 


25 00 


Chas. Techner . 




25 00 


25 00 


Simon A. Stern 




25 00 


25 00 


Louis Hano . . 




25 00 


25 00 


August Wise. . 




25 00 


25 00 


Joseph Drelfus. 




. . 25 00 


25 00 


Jacob Schwartz & 


: Co. 


25 00 


25 00 


Hart Blumenthal . . 


25 00 


25 00 


Mark Simons .... 


25 00 


25 00 


Bernard Kirschbaum 


25 00 


25 00 


J. E. Hyneman . . . 


25 00 


25 00 


Arnold Kohn .... 


25 00 


25 00 


Abraham ^M. Kohn 


25 00 


25 00 


Moses H. Wiener . . 


25 00 


25 00 


Adolph Rosen bai 


nu . 


25 00 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY 



Jacob Rothschild, Cawker 

City. Kan 25 00 

Samuel Hecht 22 50 

Rev. Dr. S. Morals. ... 20 00 

Rev. Dr. M. Jastrow . . 20 00 

Mark Katz 20 00 

Fred'k Wertheimer ... 20 00 

Zelluer Brothers 20 00 

George Spiro 20 00 

Jacob Cartuu. . . . 20 00 

Ed. Ziegler 20 00 

Mayer L. Kahu 20 00 

Edwin Lewiu 20 00 

Wm. Morris 20 00 

Rev. S. Kaufmau .... 20 00 

A. Rabiuowitz & Co ... 15 00 
Herman Kraus. ... 15 00 

Jacob Moscowitz 15 00 

S. White 15 00 

S. Sternberger 15 00 

Kohu & Kline 15 00 

B. Newman 15 00 

A. Ellis 15 00 

H. Berkowitz 15 00 

L. Wollenberger ..... 15 00 

Kiva Schwartz 15 00 

E. Lederer 15 00 

Oscar B. Teller 15 00 

Chas. Gilles 15 00 

Children of First Class He- 
brew School, Congre- 
gation Adath Jeshii- 

run 11 36 

Isaac Hamburg 10 00 

Abe Strouse 10 00 

H. B. Sommer 10 00 

Chas. K. Stern. ..'... 10 00 

Moses H. Stern 10 GO 

I. Katzeuberg 10 00 

A. Gluckman 10 00 

A. H. Marcus 10 00 

Jacob Jacobson 10 00 

Master Sol. M. Myerhotl" . 10 00 

M. Pomeranz 10 00 

M. O.strow & Son .... 1 00 

David Nathans 1 GO 

M. Goldberg 1 00 

Samuel Berkowitz .... 1 00 

S. Weiss 1 00 



1 



J. N. Israel 

Mrs. Nina Morals Cohen, 
in memory of Julia 
Eckstein. . . 
Joseph Adier. . 

W. Stern 

Gutman Kline. 
Eml. MeyerhofI . 
David Markowitz 
S. Rothschild . . 
Martin Frank . . 
Adulph Newman. 
Dr. A. B. Hirsh . 
Simon Miller . . 
Wm. Goldberger. 
Abraham Katz. . 
Sigmuud Marks. 
H. Milder .... 
Raphael S. Green 
Children'' s Fair : 

Ida Hess. . . . 

Hulda Lewin . 

Essie Hassler. . 

Carrie Kahn . . 

Minnie Gold.smith j 
Bertha and Minnie Miller, 

Pottstown 

W. Gersou. 

Mrs. Jenny Kessler . . . 

Wm. West 

Halpron Brothers ... 

P. H. Strausman 

Louis Stein 

A. Zeussler 

D. Rosezweig 

M. Goodfriend 

Misses Jacobs ..... 

Abr. Silverman 

Morris Weiss 

Samuel Pullitzer. . . . . 

P. Green berg 

L. Schlager 

Miss Charity .Solis Cohen . 

S. Rosenthal 

Jos. Weinman 

I. Siegel 

Mrs. Mary Hart 

M. Sargunsky 

A. Pomeranz 

S. Solms 



159 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 


10 00 



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GO 



160 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



M. Silbermau . . 


5 00 


Rev. S. M. Fleischinan 


5 00 


Ellis & Browu . 


5 00 


Sol. Gruuwalt ... 


5 00 


D. Miller. . . . 


5 00 


Max Roth 


5 00 


L. Applebaum. 


5 00 


D. Markowitz ... 


5 00 


I. Newrock. . . 


00 


David Sacks .... 


00 


Henry Wirtshafttr. 


.5 00 


K. Teitelbauiii .... 


5 00 


Is-aac Greeustuue. . 


5 00 


H. Kris 


o 00 


Max Weiss 


5 00 


H.Wolf 


5 00 


Henry Weiss. . 


5 00 


Jacob Behrend. . . . 


5 00 


H. Rosenthal . . . 


5 00 


L. Schlesiiiger . 


5 00 


Frank Wirtshafter . 


5 00 


Chas. M. Lam 


5 00 


Leopold Kline . . 


5 00 


A. Newman 


5 00 


Isaat- Weiss . 


.=) 00 


R. Reichert . 


5 00 


M. Hirsehman. 


o 00 


D. Rosenthal 


5 00 


Julins Kuttner. 


o 00 


Mrs. Sarah Gaus. . . 


5 00 


Louis Lewin. . . . 


00 


Mrs. D. Pottsdamer. . 


4 00 


M. Lo wen thai . . 


5 00 


Gratz Mordecai . . . 


4 00 


Gustav Lipschuetz. 


5 00 


Percy A. Sauguinetti. 


4 00 


Jacob Miller ... 


5 00 


Fabian Kline .... 


2 00 


S. L. Mendel. 


5 00 


Anonymous 


2 00 



Heceivisd from the Hep,rew Sunday-School Society for 
Building Fund. 



Subscriptions obtained by 
the pupils 

Mrs. Minnie K. Arnold. . 

Miss Ellen Phillips. . 

Mrs. A. S. Wolf 

Sol. Gans (in memory of 
his wife) 

Lazarus Ma3er 

Mrs. Emil Cauflman. . . 

M. Lieber (proceeds of 
Raftle) 

Philadelphia Sewing So- 
ciety 

Mrs. Bertha Gans . . 

B. W. Fleisher. . . . 

Moses A. Dropsie. . . 

Mrs. Leon Berg . . 

Alfred Myers 

H. S. Friedman . . . 

Mrs. Sarah Polock . . 

Mrs. S. Newhouse . . 

Miss Julia Moss . . . 

Miss Josephine Moss. 



$568 35 


110 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 


100 00 



57 00 

48 50 
80 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
20 00 
20 00 
20 00 

12 50 



Alf. S. Baker 10 00 

Nathan Strouse 10 00 

Benj Schloss 10 00 

David Stern 10 00 

Eph. Lederer 10 00 

B. F. Greeuewald . . 10 00 

Miss F. Gold.stein . . 10 00 

Mrs. H. Hahn 10 00 

Mrs. S. Liveright ... 10 00 

Cash 5 00 

Allen H. Muhr i r qq 

W. P. Muhr I 

Mrs. H. Simpson 5 00 

H. B. Sommer 5 00 

Miss Ida H. Casseres. . . 5 00 

Mrs. I. Casseres 5 00 

Chas.H. Vendig 5 00 

Mrs. Chas. H. Vendig . . 5 00 

S. Weil 5 00 

Wra. Lichten 5 00 

A. H. Marcus 5 00 

A Friend 5 00 

Mrs. M. Oppeuheimer . . 3 00 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



161 



Chas. M. Lam 2 00 

Abr. S. W. Roseubach . . 1 00 

J. S. Dreifuss 1 00 

Mi8S fSternberg 50 



J. Auerbach (pupil) 
Interest on above. . 



Total 



05 
. 171 91 

$1,815 81 



Furniture Fund. 



Eeuj. F. Teller |150 00 

Moses A. Dropsie 100 00 

Moyer Fleisher 100 00 

Louis Gerstley 100 00 

Cash (S. M.) 100 00 

Wolf & Co 100 00 

Mrs. Wm, B. Hackenburg 100 00 

Simon Fleisher 50 00 

Mrs. H. A. Nathans ... 50 00 

Isaac Rosskam 50 00 

Ed. Loeb 50 00 

Mrs. I. Sultzbach 50 00 

H. B. Blumeuthal .... 50 00 

Benj. Labe & Son .... 50 00 

Henry M. Reis 60 00 

M. W. Lipper 60 00 

Wm. Gerstley 60 00 

Simon Liveright 50 00 

Isaac Sailer 25 00 

Dr. Morris Jastrow. ... 25 00 

Philip Lewin 26 00 

Louis Sailer 25 00 

A. M. Frechie 25 00 

Mrs. Abr. S. Wolf .... 25 00 

Mrs. S. Espeu . 25 00 

Strouse, Loeb & Co. ... 25 00 

M. Sulzberger 25 00 

S. Nirdlinger 25 00 

Wolf Brothers 25 00 

Miss Emily Phillips ... 25 00 

Sam. Sternberger. . . . 25 00 

Max Bamberger .... 26 00 

Leopold Bamberger . . 25 00 

Cash (J. M.) 26 00 

Andrew Kaas . . . 25 00 

Penrose Fleisher 25 00 

Max Liveright 25 00 

Sol. L. Haas 25 00 

Louis Teller 26 00 

Joseph Loeb 25 00 

Jacob Stern & Sons ... 25 00 



Aaron Lichten 

Herman Jonas 

Henry Gerstley . . . . 

Isaac Kohn 

Samuel Kohn 

Morris Pfaelzer 

Henry Rothschild . . . 

Mayer Frank 

Leopold Loeb & Co. . . 
Marks Brothers . . . . 

Joseph Koch 

Isaac Mansbach . . . . 
Morris Einstein . . . . 
Simon May . . . . . 
Espen Brothers . . . 
Mrs. H. S. Frank . . . 
B. W. Fleisher. . . . 

Aaron Lichten 

Aaron Gans 

S. B. Fleisher 

August B. Loeb . . . . 
Joseph Fels ..... 

B. Selig 

Blum Brothers 

Simon Loeb 

Jacob Miller Sous & Co. 
H. M. Rosen baum . . . 

Raphael Teller 

Solomon Teller 

Angelo Hirsch 

Cash (I. K.) 

Morris Liveright. . 
B. F. Greenewald . . . 
Adam Baum & Co. 
Morris Dannenbaum. . 

Louis Fleisher 

Abe Hirsh 

Leopold Hirsh 

E. Wineland 

H. J. Tickner 

Julius Sichel. 



25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 

25 00 

26 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
25 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 
10 00 



162 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Sol. Miller 


10 00 


Samuel Greenewald . . 


10 00 


Miss Ella Jacobs. . . . 


5 00 


N. L. Maj'er 


5 00 


Mark Katz 


5 00 


Will Stern 


5 00 


S. Eothsehild ,...'. 


5 00 



Morris Lang, 45 North 

Third Street ... . 5 00 

Alex. M. Apple 5 00 

Jos. Goldsmith. .... 5 00 

David H. Soils 5 00 

Ed. Arnold 5 00 



Building Fund Account. 

Cash from old building, Seventh and Wood Streets |7,9o7 61 

Interest on this amount 128 44 

Subscription to Building Fund paid in 29,863 04 

Interest 78 90 

Furniture Fund 2,655 00 

Mortgage 15,000 00 

$55,682 99 
Amount paid out 51,576 06 

Balance 4,106 93 

Less special deposit for Janitor's Lodge 616 05 

13,490 88 



FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT. 

March 10, 1895. 
Subscriptions to Fund for Purchasing a Piano. 



Messrs, James Bellak's 




I. Katzenberg 


5 00 


Sous 


$75 00 


Louis Gerstley 


5 00 


Young Men's Hebrew As- 




Isaac Rosskam 


5 00 


sociation 


28 00 


Jacob Muhr 


5 00 


Miss Emily Phillips . . . 


10 00 


Edward Wolf 


5 00 


Mrs. Andrew Kaas. . . 


5 00 


Louis Eschiier 


5 00 


Mrs. Eva Coons 


5 00 


Levi Mastbaum 


5 00 


Mrs. M. Friedenwald. . . 


5 00 


Beuj. Wolf 


5 00 


Gabriel Blum 


5 00 


Moyer Fleisher 


5 00 


Mrs. Horace A. Nathans . 


8 00 


Mrs. H. S. Louchheim . . 


2 00 


D. Sulzberger 


5 00 


Cash 


2 00 


Lucien Moss 


5 00 







Total 1200 00 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



163 



RECEIPTS FROM HEBREW CHARITY BALLS. 



1861 I 75 00 

1862 75 00 

1869 400 00 



1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1877 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 



454 80 
917 77 
,029 83 
,188 12 
,128 34 
,298 41 
,273 26 
,180 33 
600 00 
200 00 
500 00 
500 00 
600 00 



1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
1891 
1892 
1893 
1894 
1895 
1896 
1897 
1898 



600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
600 00 
800 00 
924 8") 
900 00 
700 00 
700 00 
550 00 
422 71 
500 00 



FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



Hebrew Education Society 



OF 



Philadelphia. 



Tor the Year Ending March 1 



1899. 



Executive Officers. 



President Benjamin Wolf 

Vice-President .... Ephraim Lederer 
Treasurer Gabriel Blum 

Honorary Secretary . . David Sulzberger 



HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF 
OFFICERS. 

Moses A. Dropsie, Isaac Rosskam. 



Board of Officers. 



Term expires 1900. Term expires liiOl. 

Louis E. Levy, Louis Gerstley, 

Mrs. Horace A. Nathans, Jacob Muhr, 

Mrs. Henry S. Louchheim, Edward Wolf, 

Samuel M. Hyneman, Mrs. Florence K. Liveright, 

David W. Amram. Wm. B. Rosskam. 

Term expires 1902. 

Andrew Kaas, 
Mrs. Eva Coons, 
Henry M. Frank, 
Maurice Bamberger, 
Benj. W. Fleisher, Jr. 



Librarian .... Rebecca Slobodkin. 



Standing Committees 1899. 



EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE. 

Gabriel Blum, Louis Gerstley, 

Benjamin Wolf, Edward Wolf, 

Ephraim Lederer. 



BUILDING, PROPERTY AND SUPPLIES. 

D. Sulzberger, Andrew Kaas, 

B, W. Fleisher, Jr. Mrs. Horace A. Nathans, 

Mrs. Florence K. Liveright. 



INDUSTRIAL— MEN'S. 
Henry M. Frank, Jacob Muhr, 

Maurice Bamberger, Louis Gerstley, 

Wm. B. Rosskam. 

INDUSTRIAL— WOMEN'S. 
Mrs. H. a. Nathans, Mrs. Florence K. Liveright, 

Mrs. H. S. Louchheim, Mrs. Eva Coons. 



MEMBERSHIP. 
Edavard Wolf, Henry M. Frank, 

Mrs. H. S. Louchheim, Andrew Kaas, 

Maurice Bamberger, Wm. B. Rosskam, 

Benj. W. Fleisher, Jr. 



READING ROOM AND LIBRARY. 
Samuel M. Hyneman, Louis E. Levy, 

D. W. Amram, Mrs. Eva Coons, 

Jacob Muhr. 



EDUCATION. 
Louis E. Levy, B.W. Fleisher, Jr., 

Samuel M. Hyneman, D. W. Amram, 

Mrs. Eva Coons. 



LEESER LIBRARY. 

D. Sulzberger, D. W. Amram, 

Samuel M. Hyneman. 



1899 Fifty-Firsi Annual Meeting. 5659 



Philadelphia, March 12, 1899. 

The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Hebrew Educa- 
tion Societ}" was held this morning in Touro Hall, S. W. cor- 
ner of Tenth and Carpenter streets. Ephraim Lederer, Vice 
President in the chair and D. Sulzberger acting as Secretary. 

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

The reports of the President and Treasurer were received 
and read, and ordered to be entered on the minutes. 

On motion of Mr. Edward Wolf, seconded by Mr, Louis 
Gerstley, it was carried that one thousand copies of the 
Annua] Report be printed for distribution, together with the 
history of the Society. 

A communication was received from Messrs. Baker & 
Dallett, architects, in reference to the alterations and repairs 
in Touro Hall. 

On motion of Mr. Louis E. Levy, seconded by Mr. Sam- 
uel M. Hyneman, it was carried that the report be received 
and filed. 

Nominations now being in order, the present incumbents, 
whose terms expired, were all renominated as follows : 

FOR ONE YEAR. 

President — Benj amin Wolf. 
J^ice- President — Ephraim Lederer. 
Treasurer — Gabriel Blum. 
Secretary — D. Sulzberger. 

BOARD OF OFFICERS FOR THREE YEARS. 

Andrew Kaas, Mrs. Eva Coons, 

Henry M. Frank, Maurice Bamberger, 

Benjamin W. Fleisher, Jr. 



1 70 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 

There being but one nominee for each position, on mo- 
tion it was carried that the Secretary cast the vote of the 
Society, the nominees were declared unanimously elected. 

On motion of Mr. Kaas, seconded by Mr. Levy, it was 
carried that the communication from the architects, Messrs. 
Baker & Dallett, in reference to alterations and repairs and 
the removal of the swimming pool for which twelve addition- 
al shower-baths should be erected, should be taken up for 
consideration. 

On motion of Mr, Edward Wolf, seconded by Mr. 
Gerstley, it was carried that the matter be referred to the 
Board of Officers with power to act. 

On motion of Mr. Louis Gerstley, seconded by Mr. 
Edward Wolf, it was carried that the Committee on A Member- 
ship be requested to use all possible efforts to enlarge the list 
of members, and a request was made that the names of the 
Committee on Membership be read ; they are as follows : 
Edward Wolf, chairman, Mrs. H. S. Louchheim, Maurice 
Bamberger, Henry M. Frank, Andrew Kaas, William B. 
Rosskam and Benjamin W. Fleisher, Jr. 

The Chairman stated that the same Committee would be 
continued for the coming year. 

On motion adjourned. 

D. Sulzberger, 

Secretary. 



Fifty-First Annual Report. 



To the Members, Patrons, Friends and Contributors of the Hebrew 
Education Society: 

Ladies arid Gentlemen. — 

I regret that tliis, my first report as President of your 
Society, must be submitted in my absence ; only tlie most ur- 
gent business requirements could liave prevented my attend- 
ance at the Annual Meeting, more especially since only a 
portion of the amount required for the liquidation of the Nine 
Thousand Dollar mortgage has been subscribed. 

The Society's history will be published this year with the 
regular Annual Report, and will prove a valuable acquisition 
to the history of the Jews in Philadelphia. 

I trust that when the public shall receive this report, the 
entire subscription for the payment of the mortgage will have 
been obtained. 

HEBREW SCHOOLS. 

The examinations of the Hebrew Schools were held as 
follows : 

No. 1, June 3, 1204 Germantown Avenue. 

No. 2, June 10, Touro Hall, Tenth and Carpenter streets. 

No. 3, June 17, 2856-58 Weikel street. 

The room occupied by School No. 1 is wholly inadequate 
for the successful conduct of the work, it is the largest He- 
brew School with the smallest floor space. 

I would suggest that after the work in Touro Hall is 
completed, that arrangements be made for the purchase of two 
moderate sized houses, adjoining each other, and altered for 
purposes of your classes, as also for those of the Hebrew Sun- 
day-School Society. 



172 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




MOSES H. LrCHTRN 
Baard of Officers, 1892-1893 



Miss Minnie Mayer donated a Bible wbicli was awarded 
in School No. 1, as was also the Ulysses H. Rosskam prize 

and five dollar prize by Mrs. Florence 
K. Liveright. 

The Norman and Courtney prizes 
were divided between Hebrew Schools 
Nos. 2 and 3. 

NIGHT SCHOOL. 

The Night School, which is open 
during the entire year, hardly gets the 
recognition it deserves, it is taken for 
granted that the classes are kept up 
to their standard, pupils come and go 
and teachers perform their duties satis- 
factorily. Those who leave the School, having obtained as 
much as they could receive or acquire, sever their connections 
entirely and are rarel}' again heard of; no trace of them is 
possible, although most of those who were in the Segar and 
Garment Making and Cutting classes are known to liave ob- 
tained employment. 

Typewriting and Stenography is 
a recent branch of instruction, hence 
but little can be said as to its results. 

Commencement exercises of the 
Night School were held Thursda}'^ 
evening, June 30. 

There were present of the Board : 
Benjamin Wolf, President; Ephraim 
Lederer, Vice-President ; Henry M. 
Frank, Chairman of the Industrial 
Committee, and D. Sulzberger, Sec- 
retary. 

Mr. Isaac Husik, instructor in 
Hebrew in Gratz College, delivered the opening address. 

Misses Corinne B. Arnold and Beulah Brvlavvski and 




MORTON M. NEWBURGER 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



173 



Ephraim Lederer, Esq., acted as judges to award the Isidore 
Coons prize for the best recitation, which was awarded to 
Samuel Lazowick, Solomon Aaronchik and John Posner, the 
Committee deciding that there was sufficient merit in each of 
the recitations to entitle the above named to a portion of the 
prize. 

The Gab- 
riel Blum Prize 
(The Jewish 
Year), w a s 
awarded to Bar- 
net Ginvert for 
general pro- 
gress. 

Mr. Wolf 
presented the 
diplomas to the 
seventeen grad- 
uates, and the 
prizes to the 
pupils of the 
various classes. 

Mr. Eph- 
r a i m Lederer 
delivered the 
closing address 
to the gradu- 
ates. 

The exer- 
cises were con- 
cluded with the 

Star Spangled Banner being sung by the audience, Miss Emma 
Brylawski kindly performed the piano accompaniment. 

From March 17 to June 16, Mr. Lederer delivered a 
course of ten lectures on the Constitution of the United 
States. 

The nativity of the 1074 pupils admitted was as follows: 




EPHRAIM LEDERER 

Board of Officers, 1W)3— 1898 

Vice-President 189S 



174 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 




JOSEPH J. SNELLENBURG 
Board of Officers, 1892—1895 



Russia, 777; United States, IIG; Austria, 73; Roumania, 
29; Germany, 30; Italy, 16; England, 15; Cuba, 6; Bel- 
gium, 4 ; Turkey, 2 ; France, 2 ; Bul- 
^^^„^ garia, 1 ; Canada, 1 ; Greece, 1 ; Pal- 

gr ^ estine, 1. 

I ^1^ Port of Arrival : New York, 403 

Philadelphia, 476 ; Baltimore, 70 
Boston, 3 ; St. Johns, 2 ; Portland, 1 
Halifax, 1 ; Quebec, 1 ; Tampa, 1. 

SEWING SCHOOL. 

On July 5, 1898, a sewing school 
was opened in Touro Hall under the 
joint charge of the Jewish Women's 
Council and the Young Women's 
Union, and discontinued September 1. 

On January 8, 1899, the following communication was 
received from Mrs. Isaac Gimbel : 

1511 N. 16th St., 
Philadelphia, January 7, 1899. 
To the Board of Officers of the Hebrew Education Society: 

Ladies and Gentlemen : — Find- 
ing there is a need of another school 
in the southern section of the city, 
and being desirous of opening such a 
school, but not having sufficient means 
to pay a superintendent, we, the Coun- 
cil of Jewish Women, would be willing 
to undertake the entire control of the 
school if you could supply the funds 
for paying one teacher. The one 
which was carried on during the sum- 
mer in your Hall under the auspices 
of the Council did so much good 
work, that we would greatly regret 
that the lack of sufficient means would compel us to discon- 




MORRIS sickles 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



175 



tinue so good a work. Trusting the proposition will meet 
with your approval, 

I am yours, etc., 

Rachel F. Gimbel. 

Chairman of Sewing School Committee, Council of Jewish Women. 




The Board 
took favorable 
action and the 
school opened, 
the attendance 
averaging 70 
daily, it be- 
came necessary 
to employ an 
assistant. 

The Dress- 
making Class 
in which is 
taught draft- 
ing, cutting 
and fitting, 
and sewing by 
hand and ma- 
chine, and the 
Millinery 
Class in which 
instruction is 
given in mak- 
ing frames, 
covering hats 
with straw, 

silk, velvet and other material, are all that could be desired ; 
and the ladies of the Board, in whose charge these branches 
are, are enthusiastic in their praise of the instructors and 
their methods, but the attendance in these classes is not as 
large as it should be. 



BENJAMIN WOLF 

Board of Officers, 1894—1895 

Vice-President, 1895—1898 

President, 1898 



176 



HEBllE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 




SAMUEL M. HYNEMAN 
Board of Officers, 1894- 



FREE SYNAGOGUE. 

Religious services on Rosh-ha-Shanah and Kippur has 

become an established fact, this year 

being under the management of the 

instructors of the Night School aided 

^^^ k by some of the pupils of the School ; 

^^P^ '^ f« the thanks of the Society are due to 

^^^' ml^ Messrs. Bernard Harris, Samuel Israeli 

W^^m^KL.^il0S9r^ George Goward and L. Schwerin for 

their successful efforts to have the ser- 
vices properly conducted, though it can 
be positively stated that none more or- 
derly or impresive was held in the city. 
The cost which was but nom- 
inal, was paid by a few ladies and 
gentlemen who have contributed the 
requisite amount each year, their names will be found in the 
Treasurer's Report. 

BATHS. 

The Board after mature deliberation has decided to 
recommend the removal of the swim- 
ming-pool, owing to the fact that the 
water cannot change fast enough for 
the immense number of bathers using 
the pool during the summer months ; 
from one hundred and fifty to two 
hundred in one hour, is too great a 
number to bathe in water which can- 
not possibly change entire in less than 
three hours. Eleven shower baths 
are now in operation, and the Board 
of Officers suggest that twelve more 
be built as soon as means are at hand 
for the purpose, plans having already 
been prepared by the architects. 

On the fifteenth of June, 1898, the swimming pool was 




HENRY M. FRANK 

Board of Officers, 1893 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Ill 



opened, it was visited by 1500 bathers in June, 8800 bathers 
in July, and in August by 9300. 



HEBKEW SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

The Hebrew Sunday School Society occupies the build- 
ing for its School on Sunday morning and afternoon ; in the 
morning for 
i t s Religious 
School and in 
the afternoon 
by its Sewing 
School ; while 
on this subject 
I would call 
the attention 
of the public to 
the work done 
by this Society. 

It has now 
in operation the 
N o r t h e r n 
School, Third 
and German- 
town avenue, 
865 jiupils ; tlie 
Southern 
School at Touro 
Hall, Tenth 
and Carpenter 
streets, with 

10 76 pupils; SIDNEY TRIESTE 

South-Eastern School at Washington Hall, Fourth and South 
streets, with 675 pupils, and the School at Columbia Hall, Eight 
and South streets, with 487 pupils, making a total of 3103 pupils. 

b'nai b'rith manual training school. 
The technical school under the auspices of the Independ- 




178 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 




ent Order B'nai B'rith is doing good work, the pupils are 
being taught mechanical drawing, joining, carpentering, etc.; 

the instructors, Messrs. Hetzell and 
Alker, are thoroughly conversant with 
the latest methods adopted in the Pub- 
lic Manual Training Schools ; Mr. 
Alker being instructor in joinery in 
the Central Manual Training School 
of this city. 

GRATZ COLLEGE, 

The classes of the Gratz College 
still hold their sessions in Touro Hall, 
where three rooms are set apart for 
their uses. 

JOSEPH ROSENBAT^M BARON DE HIRSCH COMMITTEE. 

The Baron De Hirsch Committee still occupies the office 
room of which it has been in possession for several 3'ears past. 

The office is open each morning and afternoon when Mr. 
George Goward, the superintendent, attends to the multifarious 
duties of his office, part of which^ and not the least important, 
is the Employment Bureau. 

ENTERTAIN M ENTS TOURO HALL . 

The following entertainments were 
held in Touro Hall : 

April 27, 1898 — Young Women's 
Branch of the Young Men's Hebrew 
Association. 

July 2, 1898— Hebrew Sunday 
School, Punch and Judy Exhibition. 

November 10, 1898— Touro Circle, 
composed of former pupils of the He- 
brew Education Society's Night School. 

December 11, 1898 — Chanukah 
Entertainment of Hebrew Sunday 

^ , , ^ . DAVID W. AMRAM, 
School Society. Board of Officers 189.') 

December 14, 1898-Manual Trainins: School, B'nai B'rith. 




HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 179 

Resolutions in regard to the deaths of Philip Lewin and 
Joseph J. Snellenburg were adopted at the meetings of the 
Board of Officers held May 8, and November 13, 1898, respec- 
tively, and were as follows : 

" In common with all other charitable organizations of 
this city, the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia has 
suffered a grievous loss through the sudden demise of 

PHILIP LEWIN, 

who was for a long time an earnest co-laborer in the work of 
the Society, and for a number of years an active member of 
its Board of Officers. 

In token of the high respect and esteem for the deceased 
by his surviving associates on the Board, it is ordered that the 
present minute be inscribed on the records of the Society." 

BENJAMIN WOLF, 
D. Sulzberger, President. 

Secretary. 
Philadelphia, May 8, 1898. 

Philadelphia, November 13, 1898. 

Hebrew Education Society of 
Philadelphia. 

The Board of Officers of this Society has learned with 
deep regret of the death of 

JOSEPH J. SNELLENBURG. 

He was for a number of years an active member of this 
Board, and aided materially in the educational work of the 
Society. 

No call on him for assistance ever remained unanswered. 
The Board of Officers tenders to the family its sincere 
sympathy in their bereavement. 

BENJAMIN WOLF, 
D. Sulzberger, President. 

Secretary. 



180 



HEBREW EDUCA TION SOCIETY. 




DONATIONS. 

The following donations were received during the year : 
Report of Aguilar Free Library, New York. 
Report of Smithsonian Institution (U. S. Nat. Museum), 
Washington, D. C, 1895. 

Report of Smithsonian Institution 
(U. S. Nat. Museum), Wasliington, D. C, 
1896. 

Report of Bureau of Education, 
Washington, D. C. 

14th Report of U. S. Civil Service 
Commission, July, 1896, to June, 1897. 

14th Annual Report of Hebrew 
Technical Institute, 1898. 

15th Year Catalogue of Hebrew 
Technical Institute, 1898. 

John B. Alker, Catalogue of Central 
mks. THERESA LOEB Manual Training School, 1898. 
Hon. G. H. Gallinger, " Speech on Tariff." 
Mrs. David Rosenheim, books and magazines. 
The Mi.sses Davidson, unbound books and magazines. 

Mrs. Lena Frank, unbound books 
and magazines. 

Lit Brothers, 500 America's Na- 
tional Songs. 

Mrs. S. Kind, 29 books for Circu- 
lating Library. 

Mr. Isaac Sailer, one volume 
"Sadia Gaon." 

Solomon Sulzberger, New York, 
" Menorah." 

The Misses Phillips, magazines 
and Harper's Bazaars. 

Horace A. Nathans, " History of 
England." 

U. Z. Oberteuffer, six "Frank " series and one " Golden 
Treasury." 




JOSEPH FELS 
Board of offlceis, 1S8.5— 1893 



HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIET Y. 



181 




WILLIAM B. KO!-*.SKAM 
Board of Offlceis. 1808 



B. H. Hartogensis, Jewish 
newspapers. 

Miss Emily Phillips, two 
stereoscopes and views, books and 
calico and canton flannels. 

Mrs. Chas. Follen Palmer, 
" Inebriety, its source, preven- 
tion and cure," by Charles Follen 
Palmer." 

Mrs. Elvira N. Solis, New 
York, engraving the Origin of 
the Rites and Worship of the 
Hebrews. 

Rev. D. Baruch, photograph 
of Judah Touro. 
John B. Alker, lil)rary card box made by pupils of Manual 
Training School. 

B'nai B'rith Manual Training School, gavel made by 
Benjamin S. Greenfield. 

Mrs. Isaac Gimbel, treat to children of Sewing School. 
Mrs. Felix Gerson, ten dolls for children of Sewing 
School who attended in the blizzard. 

Benjamin Wolf, 1000 large envelopes and metal edge 
cards for signs in Touro Hall. 

Mrs. Horace A. Nathans, six taper holders. 
Mrs. Florence K. Liveright, five pair cutting plyers for 
Millinery Class. 

Mrs. Florence K. Liveright, ten dollars to pay for ex- 
changing a Wheeler ct Wilson for a Domestic sewing machine. 
Willimantic Linen Co., six dozen spools cotton for Sewing 
School. 

Messrs. L. Bamberger & Co., two cases tobacco. 
A legacy of one hundred dollars was received during the 
3'ear from the Estate of Lucien Moss. 

The following contributions have been received towards 
liquidating the mortgage of nine thousand dollars remaining 
on Touro Hall* : 



182 HEBREW ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

Isaac Rosskam $500 00 A. M. Frechie 50 00 

Louis Gerstle.y 500 00 Wm. B. Rosskam 50 00 

Benj. Wolf .250 00 Max Levy 50 00 

Gabriel Blum !250 00 Sam'l. M, Hyuemau. . . . 25 00 

Moses A. Dropsie 250 00 Louis E. Levy 25 00 

Jacob Muhr 250 00 Wm. B. Hackenburg . . . 25 00 

Edward Wolf 250 00 Ephraim Lederer 25 CO 

Mrs. Sarah Eisner 250 00 G. Roseustein 3 00 

xMiss Emily Phillips. . . . 250 00 H. F. Bachmau & Co. . . . 250 00 

Gimbel Brothers 150 00 Max Bamberger 250 00 

Beuj. W. Fleisher, Jr . . . 150 00 Edward Loeb 100 00 

Sam'l S. Fleisher 150 00 Mrs. Jane Friedeuwald . 50 00 

Wm, Gerstley 100 00 Isidore Laugsdorf 50 00 

Maurice Bamberger . . . 100 00 Herman Jonas 50 00 

Andrew Kaas 100 00 Horace A. Nathans .... 50 00 

Mrs. Eva Coons 100 00 August B. Loeb 25 00 

Mrs. Florence K. Liveright 100 00 Henry M. Frank 25 00 

Lit Brothers 100 00 A. M. Kohu 15 00 

LIBRARY. 

The Leeser Library has been used during tire last year, 
but not to the extent that such a valuable collection would 
warrant. Every facility will be afforded to those who desire 
the use of the books, but circumstances have compelled the 
adoption of a rule which necessitates their use for reference 
only and in the building. 

The Circulating Library has been largely patronized by 
the pupils of the Night School during the last few months. 
A number of books have been added to it, mainly juvenile. 

The demand for books in Jargon having considerably 
increased, a number of them were recently purchased. 

LIGHTING. 

Before closing this report, I desire to mention that a 
question of importance has been considered by your Board of 
Officers, that of " Light." 

The enormous sum of five hundred and forty-eight dol- 
lars and thirty cents was paid for gas (of this amount the 
fixtures and mantles cost seven dollars and thirty cents), and 
the bill for the present quarter, not included in this account, 
amounting to one hundred and sixtv dollars. 



HEBREW EDVCATIOIS SOCIETY. 183 

Estimates have been obtained for installing an electric 
plant which would probably be no more expensive than the 
gas supply, and have the advantage of avoiding the intense 
heat thrown out by the gas lights during the summer 
months ; the most rigid economy is practiced at all times, 
and your Board has hesitated to incur the expense of instal- 
lation. 

It will be noted by the report of the Treasurer that the 
list of .members paying five dollars per annum has fallen off 
by twelve less paying this year, and the list of patrons paying 
twenty-five dollars by thirteen, causing a reduction from that 
source amounting to three hundred and eighty-five dollars ; 
strenuous efforts should be made by every member of the So- 
ciety, more especially by those composing the Board of Offic- 
ers, to increase the membership. 

Contributions for educational purposes is the highest and 
noblest kind of charity, for it tends to make our people better 
men and women and better citizens, instilling in them a love 
of race and love of country. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Benjamin Wolf, 

President. 



RESOLUTION 

Adopted at the meeting of the Board of Officers on 
the occasion of tlie death of the Baroness Clara de Hirsch- 
Gereuth: 

"In the death of tlie Baroness Clara de Hirsch-Gereuth, 
the Hebrew Education tSociety of Philadelphia, in common 
with the Jewisli people throughout the world, bows in devout 
resignation to the Divine will. 

" The broad philanthropy and the unstinted charity of 
the Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth, attained a grandeur paral- 
leled only by that of her equally lamented husband and 
affords an example of devotion to a high ideal which remains 
as a lustrous and imperishable memorial of her benificent 
life and as her most valuable heritage to the world which 
she blessed with her presence." 



Treasurer's Report. 



Receipts. 

From March 9, 1898 to March 12, 1899. 

Baron de Hirsch Fund $2,400 00 

239 Members 1,195 00 

68 Patrons I,7(i0 00 

11 Friends 1,100 00 

Interest on Mortgages and Deposits l,lo-) 37 

Hebrew Charity Bali (1898) 500 00 

Miss Emily Phillips 200 00 

Hon. Mayer Sulzberger 100 00 

Chevra Thillim 25 00 

Henry Jonas 5 00 

H. A. Nathans (Norman & Courtney Prize) .... 10 00 

Isaac Rosskam (Ulj'sses H. Rosskam Prize) .... 10 00 

Boolis 10 88 

Cigars 292 00 

Free Synagogue Account. 

Rosskam, Gerstley & Co. $15 00 

Benjamin Wolf 10 00 

Miss Emily Phillips 10 00 

Wm. B. Hackenburg 5 00 

Hon. Mayer Sulzberger 5 00 

Horace A. Nathans 5 00 

Ludwig Leberman 5 00 

Benj. W. Fleisher, Jr 5 00 

Mrs. Eva Coons 5 00 

Mrs. Florence K. Liveright 5 00 

Mrs. Jane Friedenwald 5 00 

Edward Wolf 5 00 

Mrs. Abr. S. Wolf 2 00 

Mrs. H. S. Louchheim 2 00 

84 00 



Expenditures. 

Teachers' Salaries— Night School .... |1,120 50 
" " Industrial " .... 1,642 85 

" " Hebrew " .... 900 00 



J, 787 25 



$3,663 35 



186 HEBRE W ED UCA TION SOCIETY. 

Janitor's Salary |813 75 

Librariau's " 162 00 

Collector 77 50 



Gas $541 00 

Mantles 7 30 



1,053 00 



$548 30 

Coal 240 15 

Interest on Mortgage 467 55 

Rent 100 00 

Insurance 99 80 

Water Tax 43 20 



Industrial. 

Tobacco $117 63 

Revenue (Cigar) Stamps 91 20 

Cigar Boxes 41 00 



$249 83 
Sundry Supplies 5823 



General Supplies. 



Stationary . . . . 
Hebrew Books . . 
English " . . 
Library " 
Sundry Supplies 



Annual Reports $55 00 

Distributing 5 00 



Fire-Proof Safe 
Clerical Work . 



$74 


20 


57 


09 


68 33 


26 41 


25 


86 


$60 00 


45 


00 


20 


00 



1,499 00 



308 06 



251 89 



125 00 

Free Synagogue. 
For Expense in Carrying on Service 84 00 

General Expense. 

Additional Coal-bin $105 00 

Carpenter Work $75 91 

Lumber 18 75 

94 66 

Plumbing and Steam Fitting 71 45 



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187 



Glaziug 

Painting 

Bricklaying 

Stamped Envelopes and Postage .... 

Engrossing and Frames 

Examination Expense 

Advertising ... 

Printing 

Hauling Ashes . 

Jiook-binding 

Repairing maciiine and hardware .... 

Collateral Inheritance Tax 

Petty Cash 

Deficiency, 1898 
Total 



16 82 
10 00 

4 50 

17 90 
22 22 
47 28 
22 50 

17 25 

18 75 
4 00 

4 41 

5 00 
64 37 



526 11 



7,510 66 

784 84 

$8,295 50 



Receipts |8,787 25 

Expenditures 8,295 50 



Deduct 10 per cent, from Income .... 

Leaves deficit 



$491 75 

878 72 



$386 97 



Special Fund. 

Balance on hand March 8, 1898 $4,360 76 

Five per cent. Collateral Inheritance Tax (Est. M. 

Sickels) 5 00 

Ten per cent. General Fund, 1898 890 57 

Lucien Moss (Legacy) 100 00 

Mortgage paid (4th and Wood Streets) 5,019 25 

Interest on Deposit 85 53 



$10,961.11 



Subscriptions paid on Mortgage Fund. 

Miss Emily Phillips $250 00 

A. M. Frechie 50 00 

Wm. B. Hackenburg 25 00 

G. Rosenstein 3 00 



Purchase of Mortgage (N. W. cor. 56th and Market) 



328 00 

$11,289 11 
3,000 00 



$8,289 1 



188 HEBREW EDUCATION S0CIE2Y. 

Ten per cent, of Income, 1898 878 75 

$9,167 83 
JBelonging to Permanent Fund 5,167 00 

18,992 83 
Building Fund. 



Balance on hand, March, 1898 $978 98 

Interests on deposits 18 16 



997 14 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS OF BOARD OF OFFICERS. 

Moses A. Dropsie, Esq. 
Isaac Rosskam. 



Sol. L. Levy, 138 S. 3d. 

D. Sulzberger, 1220 N. 12th. 

Mrs. B. F. Teller, 1727 Spring Garden. 

Mrs. Dora Trieste, Washington, D. C. 

Mrs. Abraham S. Wolf, 1530 Green St. 



FRIENDS. 



PAYING $100.00 PER ANNUM. 



Coons, Mrs. Eva, 1510 Girard Ave. 
Fleisher, B. W., 2301 Green. 
Fleisher, Moyer, 2223 Green. 
Gerstley, Louis, 1411 N. Broad. 
Kaas, Andrew, 1430 N. 15th. 
Muhr, Jacob, 1110 Chestnut. 



Rosskam, Isaac, 1423 N. 15th. 
Snellenburg, J. J., Estate. 
Sternberger, Samuel, 2120 Spring 

Garden. 
Wolf, Ed., 1323 N. Broad. 



PATRONS. 

PAYING $25.00 PER ANNUM. 



Aloe, Sidney, 724 Market. 
Arnold, Mrs. Minnie K., 4250 Park- 
side Ave. 

Bamberger, L., 1438 N. Broad. 
Bamberger, Max, 1711 Girard Ave. 
Bamberger, Maurice, 1949 N. Broad. 
Bamberger, Mrs. Maurice, 1949 N. 

Broad. 
Bauer, Benj., S. E. cor. 13th and 

Market. 
Blum, Gabriel, 1007 Market. 



Blum, Mrs. Gabriel, Ogontz. 
Blum, Ralph, 1007 Market. 
Blumenthal, H. B., 48 N. 3d. 

Dannenbaum, Morris, 808 Arch. 
Dreifus, Maack, 1013 Market. 

Eisner, Mrs. Z. L., 1231 N. Broad. 
Espen, Mrs. Samuel, 2309 Green. 

Fernberger, Henry, 1230 Market. 
Fleisher, B. W., Jr., 28 S. 6th. 



190 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Fleisher, Louis, 513 Market. 

Fleisher, S. S., 25th and Hamilton. 

Fleisher, Simon B., 2220 Green. 

Frank, Henry M., 2349 Park Ave. 

Frank, Mrs. Rosa, 2224 Green. 

Frank, Jacob S., 2023 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Frechie, A. M., 1529 N. 7th. 

Friedenwald, Mrs. Jane, 915 N. 
16th. 

Gerstley, Wm., 1409 N. Broad. 

Gimbel, Chas., S. E. cor. 9th and 
Market. 

Gimbel, Ellis A., !S. E. cor. 9th and 
Market. 

Greenwald, Joseph L., 601 Chest- 
nut. 

Hackenburg, Mrs. Wm. B., 953 N. 
8th. 

Jonas, Herman, 1007 Market. 

Katzenberg, I., 1345 N. 12th. 
Kohn, Samuel, 722 Market. 
Kohn, Simon I., 722 Market. 
Kirschbaum, Simon, 724 Market. 

Langsdorf, Isidore, 317 N. 7th. 

Lit, Jacob D., N. E. cor. 8th and 
Market. 

Lit, Samuel D., N. E. cor. 8th and 
Market. 

Liveright, Max, 1418 Girard Ave. 

Liveright, Mrs. Florence K., 910 N. 
Broad. 

Lpeb, August B., 2124 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Loeb., Mrs. Marx B., 1321 Franklin. 

Louchheim, Mrs. H. S., 919 N. 16th. 

Louchheim, Joseph A., 2131 Green. 



Marks, Emanuel, 8th and Arch. 
Marks, Ferdinand, 8th and Arch. 
Marks, William, 8th and Arch. 
Muhr, Mrs. Fanny, 909 N. Broad. 
Myers, Angelo, 1823 Spring Garden. 

Nathans, Mrs. H. A., 1500 Centen- 
nial Ave. 
Nirdlinger, Samuel, 842 N. Broad. 

Pfaelzer, Morris, 1524 N. 16th. 
Pfaelzer, Simon, 1430 N. 16th. 

Rosenbaum, Henry M., 1421 Poplar. 
Rothschild, Henry, 1220 N. 7th. 

Selig, Eli K., 724 Market. 

Snellenburg, Nathan, 12th and Mar- 
ket. 

Snellenburg, Samuel, 12th and Mar- 
ket. 

Snellenburg, Mrs. Samuel, 2127 N. 
Broad. 

Solomons, A. A., 121 Walnut. 

Steinbach, Dr. L. W. , 1309 N. Broad. 

Steppacher, Walter M., 2028 Wal- 
lace. 

Strouse, Mrs. Levi, 722 N. 7th. 

Teller, Frank, 1816 Girard Ave. 
Teller, Joseph R., 1518 Fairmount 
Ave. 

Wolf, Albert, 508 Minor. 

Wolf, Benj., 621 Cherry. 

Wolf, Mrs. Benj., 1506 Girard Ave. 

Wolf, Clarence, 508 Minor. 

Wolf, Mrs. Clarence, 910 Franklin. 

Wolf, Edwin, 1619 Poplar. 

Wolf, Frank, Franklin and Vine. 

Wolf, Isaac, Jr., Franklin and Vine. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIEl Y. 



191 



MEMBERS. 



PAYING $5.00 PER ANNUM. 



Abeles, Simou, 806 N. 7th. 

Adler, Mrs. Abr., 222;^ Greeu. 

Adler, Dr. Cyrus, Smithsonian In- 
stitution, Washington, D. C. 

Amram, D. W., 603 Chestnut St. 

Appel, Alex M., N. E. cor. 10th and 
Filbert. 

Arnold, Miss Julia, 645 N. 22d. 

Arnold, Philip, 2118 Spring Garden. 

Bachman, Frank H., 121 S. 5th. 
Bamberger, Mrs. Fannie, 1319 N. 

19th. 
Bamberger, Wm., 1438 N. Broad. 
Baum, Nathan, 223 N. 3d. 
Belmont, Mrs. Max, 1515Fairmount 

Ave. 
Benswanger, jNIrs. E., 1624 Diamond. 
Bernheimer, Morris, 904 Richmond. 
Berkowitz, Rev. Dr. Henry, 1529 N. 

33d. 
Birnbaum, Mrs M., 1733 N. 17th. 
Blumenthal, Sol., 48 N. Third. 
Brandes, Mrs. J. 
Brunswick, R., 2251 N. Broad. 
Burustine, Alexander, 2055 E. 

Cambria. 
Burnsteiu, J. I., 2340 N. Front. 

Cohen, Charles J., 334 S. 2lst. 

Cohen, Samuel, 

Cohen, Dr. S. Solis, 219 S. 17th. 

Daniels', Gus., 2022 Wallace 

Dan neu baum, Mrs. H., 2043 Spring 

Garden. 
Dannenbaum, Ed. M., 2043 Spring 

Garden. 
Dessauer, Seligman, S. E. cor. 12th 

and Market. 

Eichholz, Adolph, 2138 Gratz Ave. 



Eliel, Mrs. Louis S., 1613 N. 15th. 
Engel, J. M., 1212 N. 7th. 
Eschner, Louis. 2004 Park Ave. 
Eschner, Mrs. L.. 2004 Park Ave. 
Espen, Jacob, 1020 Chestnut. 
Espen, Samuel, 2309 Green. 

Fels, Joseph, 1710 Market. 

Fels, Morris, 1312 Franklin. 

Fels, Samuel S., 1710 Market. 

Feustman, Mrs. B. H., 1512 Girard 
Ave. 

Fleisher, Mrs. Alex., 1935 Wallace. 

Fleisher, Mrs. B. W.. Jr., 1736 
Spring Garden. 

Fleisher, Miss Helen, 2220 Green. 

Fleisher, Henry, 513 Market. 

Fleisher, Mrs. Moyer, 2223 Green. 

Fleisher, Penrose, 1910 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Fleisher, Mrs. Simon, 2030 Green. 

Fleishman, Rev. S. M., Jewigh 
Foster Home. 

Frank, Leopold, 1007 Market. 

Frank, Martin, 7th and Cherry. 

Frank, Mayer, 961 Franklin. 

Frechie, Mayer S., 1336 N. 6th. 

Freedman, Chas., S. E. cor. 7th and 
Cherry. 

Friedman, H. S., 1422 N. 16th. 

Friedenwald, Dr. Herbert, Library 
of Congress, Washington, D. C. 

Gans, Mrs. Aaron, 2020 Green. 
Gerstley, Mrs. Wm., 1409 N. Broad. 
Gimbel, Ben., 9th and Market. 
Goldbacher, R., 1927 N. 8th. 
Goldstein, Mrs. Jacob, 1414 N. 16th. 
Greenewald, B. F., 1013 Market. 
Greenwald, Mrs. D., 2417 Master. 
Green wald, David, 9 N, 3d. 
Greenwald, Samuel, 9 N. 3d. 



192 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



Haas, S. L., 1703 Frauklin. 
Hackenburg, Wm. B., 516 Market. 
Hagedorn, J. J., 946 Frankliu. 
Harris, Bernard, 209 South 6th, 
Hecht, Samuel, 1103 Chestnut. 
Heller, Mrs. Herman, 934 Franklin. 
Heuly, Jacob, 831 Arch. 
Hess, Mrs. Henry, 1632 Frankliu. 
Hirsh, Alfred C, 1518 Jefferson. 
Hirsh, Henry, 1418 N. 16th. 
Hirsh, Wm. M., 1431 N. 15th. 
Hirshler, Moses, 1310 Frankliu. 
Hynemau, Jacob E., 418 Walnut. 
Hynemau, Samuel M., S. E. cor. 
Broad and Chestnut. 

Jastrow, Dr. M., Jr., Univ. of Pa. 
Jastrow, Rev. Dr. M., 139 W. Upsal, 

German town. 
Jeitles, H. A., 865 Randolph. 
Jonas, Mrs. Henry, 1847 Park Ave. 
Jurist, Mrs. Louis, 916 N. Broad. 

Katz, Marcus, 925 Franklin. 
Katzenberg, Mrs. I., 1345 N. 12th. 
Kahn, Samuel, 1420 S. Penn Sq. 
Kauffman, Eugene, 137 N. 7th. 
Kaufman, M. A., 137 N. 7th. 
Kaufman, Mrs. J., 1325 Franklin. 
Kind, Samuel, 1515 N. 10th. 
Kirschbaum, Mrs. A. B., 1315 N. 

Broad. 
Kirschbaum, Bernard, 1315 N. 

Broad. 
Kohn, Abr., M., 910 N. 6th. 
Kohu, Simon, 41 N. 3d. 
Krieger, Jacob, 1320 Brown. 
Krieger, Mrs. S., 1814 N. 18th. 

Labe, Ben., 1231 N. 7th. 
Labe, Mrs. Ben., 1231 N. 7th, 
Lang, Isaac M., 1822 N. 7th. 
Lang, Mrs. Morris, 2240 N. Broad. 
Langfeld, A. M., N. W. cor. 10th 

and Filbert. 
Langfeld, Isaac, 1319 N. 7th. 
Langfeld, M. F., 2117 Master. 
Langsdorf. Mrs. M. K., 724 N. 6th. 
Leberman, L. 722 Frauklin. 



Leberman, Mrs. L., 722 Frankliu. 

Lederer, Ephraim, 1001 Chestnut. 

Lemberg, E., 4446 Fraukford Ave. 

Leopold, Mrs. Isaac, 1520 Franklin. 

Levi, Moses, 409 S. 9th. 

Levinthal, Rabbi B. L., 534 Pine 

Levy, Louis E., 854 N. 8th. 

Levy, Max, 1213 Race. 

Lichten, Moses, 1853 Park Ave. 

Lichten, Wm., 12th and Washing- 
ton Ave. 

Linse, Sol., 626 South. 

Lipper, M. W., 1518 Girard Ave. 

Liveright, Morris, 1742 Franklin. 

Loeb, Arthur, cor. Columbia and 
German town Aves. 

Loeb, Herman, N. W. cor. 4th and 
Race. 

Loeb, Horace. 

Loeb, Horace, 51 N. 3d. 

Loeb, Jacob F., 51 N, 8d. 

Loeb, Leo, 929 N. 8th. 

Loeb, Mrs. Leo., 929 N. 8th. 

Loeb, Leopold, 306 N. 3d. 

Loeb, Solomon, 306 N. 3d. 

Loeb, Simon, 1508 Girard Ave. 

Louchheim, Mrs. Jos., 715 N. 6th. 

Loner, Mrs. I., 2113 Spring Garden. 

Lowenstein, B., 805 N. 8th. 

Massmau, Mrs. A. E., 1511 N. 15th. 
Mastbaum, Levi, 1332 Franklin. 
May, Mrs. S., 719 Brown. 
Mayer, Clinton O., 601 Chestnut. 
Mayer, Levi, 826 N. 7th. 
Mayer, Marx S., 411 Walnut. 
Merz, Daniel, 704 N. 6th. 
Miller, Jacob, 1521 N. 8th. 
Miller, Simon, 926 Market. 
Miller, Wm. W., 926 Market. 
Morris, Wm., 702 Chestnut. 
Morwitz, Joseph, 614 Chestnut. 
Myers, Jos., 2308 Green. 
Myers, Nathan L., 226 S. Front. 

Nathans, H. A., 1500 Centennial 

Ave. 
Nathanson, Harry,12th and Market. 



HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 



193 



Netter, Mrs. Henry H., 951 N. 8th. 
Netter, John, 2028 N. 19th. 
Netter, Jos., 1820 Fraukliu. 
Newburger, Alfred H.,714 Market. 
Newburger, Morris, 2010 Green. 
Nevvburger, Mrs. Morris, 2010 Green. 

Pfaelzer, Mrs. Morris, 1524 N. 16th. 
Pfaelzer, Mrs. Simon, 1430 N. 16th. 
Powdermaker, Mrs. M , 889 N. 7th. 

Rice, J. J., 1721 N. 15th. 

Roseuau, Charles, cor. Columbia and 

Gerjnantowu Aves. 
Roseuau, Nathan, 1908 N. 8th. 
Rosenau, Philip, 1281 Susq. Ave. 
Rosenberg, Morris, 716 Fraukliu. 
Rosskam, Mrs. Isaac, 1428 N. 15th. 
Rosskum, Joseph, 1428 N. 15th. 
Rosskam, Wm. B., 1428 N, loth. 
Rothschild, Jacob, Cawker City, 

Kan. 
Rothschild, Mrs. Henry, 1220 N. 

7th. 
Rothschild, Mrs. Sol., 1717 Jefler- 

sou. 
Rubin, Mrs. Joseph H., 1623 N. 33d. 

Sacks, Harry, 1223 Market. 

Sacks, Samuel, 1223 Market. 

Sailer, Isaac, 2115 Spring Garden. 

Sailer, Mrs. Isaac, 2115 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Sailer, Louis, 2035 Spring Garden. 

Schuitzer, H. M., 1007 Market. 

Schwartz, Mrs. I., 1715 N. 18th. 

Schwartz, M., 1336 N. 15th. 

Seidenbach, Mrs. B., 1852 Park Ave. 

Seidenbach, Mayer, 1709 Wallace. 

Selig, Barney, 28 N. 3d. 

Selig, Mrs. Sol., 2124 Spring Garden. 

Shoneman, Louis, 116 N. 8th. 

Shoyer, Saml. E., 1036 Arch. 

Sichel, Julius, 1812 Mt. Vernon. 

Silberman, Mrs. S., 1727 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Snellen burg, Joseph N., 12th and 
Market. 



Sondheim, Julius, 1281 N. Broad. 

Springer, Emanuel, 1935 Wallace. 

Steppacher, Mrs. Walter, 2028 Wal- 
lace. 

Steppacher, Mrs. Wolf, 1730 Frank- 
lin. 

Stern, C. K., 1409 N. 12th. 

Stern, Edward, 112 N. 12th. 

Stern, Harry F., Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

Stern, Jacob, 428 N. 3d. 

Stern, Mrs. M., 948 N. 8th. 

Stern, M. H., 1609 Diamond. 

Stern, Simon A., 836 N. 5th. 

Strauss, Karl, 122 N. 3d. 

Strauss, Samuel, 1845 N. 18th. 

Strouse, Henry L., 837 Franklin. 

Strouse, Nathan, 913 N. 16th. 

Sulzberger, Joseph E., 1308 Girard 
Ave. 

Sulzberger, Judge Mayer, 1303 
Girard Ave. 

Techner, Chas., 1611 N. 10th. 
Teller, Benj. F., 1727 Spring Gar- 
den, 
Teller, David, 908 N. 8th. 
Teller, Jacob, 703 Corinthian Ave. 
Teller, Louis E., 516 Market. 
Teller, Louis, 1824 Girard Ave. 
Teller, Oscar B., 606 Chestnut. 
Teller, Raphael, 722 N. 6th. 
Teller, Mrs. Solomon, 429 Green. 
Teller, Dr. W. H., 2142 Green. 
Troutman, M., 815 Franklin. 

UfTenheimer, A. I., 115 N. 4th. 

Van Beil, H., 927 N. Broad, 
Veudig, Chas. H., 1922 N. 12th. 

Wallerstein, David, Pelham, Mt. 
Airy. 

Wedell, Mrs. R. P., 1410 N. Broad. 

Weiller, Herman, 1382 Spring Gar- 
den. 

Weinman, Joseph, 1702 Jefferson. 

Weinman, Mrs. Joseph, 1702 Jeffer- 
son. 



194 HEBREW EDUCATION SOCIETY. 

Weyl, Maurice, N. 112 N. 12th. Wolf, Mrs. Edwin, 1610 Poplar. 

Wiener, George, 1912 N. 11th. Wolf, Elias, 314 N. 3d. 

Wiener, Mrs. J., 866 N. 7th. Wolf, Elias, 910 Franklin. 

Wineland, Eli, 1435 Diamond. Wolf, Mrs. Elias, 910 Franklin. 

Wiueland, Mrs. Eli, 1435 Diamond. Wolf, Mrs. Gus., 1733 Franklin. 

Weiss, Mrs. J., 1726 N. 16th. Wolf, Gus., 1733 Franklin. 

Wise, Mrs. August, 1514 N. 7th. Wolf, Mrs. Herman, 826 N. 7th. 

Wolf, Al., 910 Franklin. Wolf, Louis, 1529 N. 10th. 

Wolf, Mrs. D., 1308 N. 7th. Wolf, Simon, 712 N. 7th. 



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